I have an old desktop that has been serving me well for years now (Asus M5A97 AMD FX 8350 w/16 gb ram and Win 7) but I ran into an issue yesterday that has me stumped - I left my rig on overnight and the FL temps soared and the room was 88` F and my monitor was showing a warning from American Megatrends that the temp was too high and before I could do anything my rig just shutdown - not like a Windows shutdown - it just turned off like the power plug had been yanked! I waited 20 minutes and hit the power button and my rig booted up and started like normal with one BIG exception - I have a 1 TB HDD drive that I use for storing 1000's of pics, video and misc. info and it is now completely empty! I don't know if it's related to the overheating issue but why would a hard drive get wiped clean just because of that??!!
Hard Drive is suddenly "empty"!
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One of the many possible things when power is interrupted. From a fresh look, it seems the file structure is not showing. Can you submit a screenshot of Disk Management with the full screen mode of it.
Also, run chkdsk (Disk Check) from an elevated command prompt to check for and repair any file system errors. For example, chkdsk /f X: (replace X with the drive letter).
In your case, it should be chkdsk /f H:
Also, run chkdsk (Disk Check) from an elevated command prompt to check for and repair any file system errors. For example, chkdsk /f X: (replace X with the drive letter).
In your case, it should be chkdsk /f H:
Is this what you're referring to? Sorry - I'm fairly computer literate but his is a weak point for me!
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The only thing I can say is that the partition table looks intact, drive is still formatted and shows nothing is on that drive. So not sure where your data has gone unless its on a different drive like that external My Passport drive? You do have a "new volume" drive there with no drive letter with 883gb free space.
Agreed, the only anomaly here is that the drive is reporting it has no data. Was there more than disk 2 listed on the bottom?
Did you run that command in Command Prompt? To get an elevated prompt:
Right-click in Start Menu
Click the Start button (Windows icon).
Type "Command Prompt" in the search bar.
Right-click on "Command Prompt" in the search results.
Select "Run as administrator."
If prompted by the User Account Control, click "Yes."
Did you run that command in Command Prompt? To get an elevated prompt:
Right-click in Start Menu
Click the Start button (Windows icon).
Type "Command Prompt" in the search bar.
Right-click on "Command Prompt" in the search results.
Select "Run as administrator."
If prompted by the User Account Control, click "Yes."