Data not found no more!!

[dickwan]

Hello,

I would like to know what can make 60 Gb data disappear from the HDD without any "delete action". I've noticed the evning before the mysterious disappearing following: Trying to acces certain files return me follwing error message(approximativelly)"The cannot be open. It might be corrupted etc..".

The the morning as I turned on the PC there where no data no more!! so I don't I know. is it a virus? or my HDD is defect? Or My windows xp is crasy...

Is there any possibility to retrioeve the lost data?

Peace

Me

[MaxT]

Could be virus, could be trojanhorse, could be badsector, could be...

My choices :

Kaspersky Antivirus + Agnitum Outpost Firewall + Runtime Get Data Back for restore

[Arachnotron]

first stop: check out the event viewer for any warnings in the system log.

[dickwan]

Originally posted by MaxT
Could be virus, could be trojanhorse, could be badsector, could be...

My choices :

Kaspersky Antivirus + Agnitum Outpost Firewall + Runtime Get Data Back for restore


Here is what I've found in the log (event viewer).

"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume E:."

So this could be my Hard Drive?

[MaxT]

Seems so. Just run chkdsk on that drive (and if it's in use, it will be checked first at the next boot).

[Arachnotron]

So this could be my Hard Drive?Not exactly. This is an error about the file system. Something went wrong while writing, and the filesystem is corrupt. What caused it is unclear. It does not neccecarily imply the harddisk itself is broken.

Disk hardware failures usually are preceeded by repeated SMART errors, ATAPI errors or Disk errors. Stuff like: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1"

If you have only filesystem errors, but no errors linked directly to the hardware the problem is most likely software related. (or something like a sudden powerfailure). If your system still boots, a chkdsk should take card of it.