Err... where has my data gone? - Help!

Stonedofmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 16:53

I turned on my PC today and the drive I use for storing files was not there. Thinking that was odd I checked the Disk Management console and it asked me if I want to intialise my disk :confused:

I've not done anything to it and it was working fine when I switched off last night. It's a 1Tb Samsung F1 on Vista x64 and theres no sign it's faulty.

Any ideas how I can resolve the issue?

Cheers

p.s. the last thing it was doing last night was installing Windows Updates. Could this have had an impact on things...

Stonedofmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 18:15

Yep, and the Samsung drive utility just gave the drive a clean bill of health. In short the drive appears to be fine, just the contents have disappeared since last night.

I'm afraid to do anything further without guidance in case I overwrite the contents which I know are there.

Stonedofmoo · 18 Nov 2008 at 19:19

Thanks guys, I'm running a recovery utility now.

It found 1392 folders and 39,000 files within seconds so it was obviously able to read the contents in some form or another, but as it now is scanning the whole disk surface it will be a few hours before I know the final results.

Stonedofmoo · 19 Nov 2008 at 17:22

JoeMama said:
I had to hook up a spare drive and use getdataback to retrieve all the data onto the spare drive.

That Getdataback is fricking awesome!

It's recovered all of my files, that's nearly 750Gb's worth. I'm dead impressed