Losing data

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Recently i've had a few problems with my Seagate Barracuda 2TB, its roughly a year old this September but i seem to be losing data stored on it? Logged in this morning to find that desktop icons are blank, aka the data dosen't exist anymore. I've checked on CrystalDiskinfo and no bad sectors etc at all. Done a virus and Malware scan and still nothing?
 
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The data doesn't exist anymore? What do you mean, are the programs uninstalled/corrupted, or did the icons just disappear?
 
It looks like its pretty much "uninstalled" there's no trace of any of them. However its random programs, yesterday i lost just Steam, and booting up today i've lost iTunes, and other random programs :o
 
Just one user profile.

It seems to be just programs at the moment, Steam and all the games installed, Origin, iTunes, DevC++ and a few more. I've no idea whats happening lol.
 
I had a similar experience not to long ago. Never had this problem with Win7, but with Win8.1, I have lost entire drives(storage drives, just wiped of all data) and have spent hours recovering all the data. Never did find out what was causing it. Just glad it has'nt happened for a while now.
 
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