What happened was, I rebooted, Windows brought up a message saying one of my disks needed checking, and did I want to do it now? I clicked no, and discovered that it couldn't see the drive at all. So I rebooted again and clicked yes. It checked the disk, and gave me a huge number of swiftly-scrolling messages mentioning things like orphaned files, and then I could see the disk but everything that had been on it originally was gone. Quite a lot of what I'd copied onto it since I got it was still there, but in renamed folders.
It's now running the check. It'd be nice to get some of the stuff back, but none of it's personal or irreplaceable... I just hope it doesn't mean the drive's about to die.
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What happened was, I rebooted, Windows brought up a message saying one of my disks needed checking, and did I want to do it now? I clicked no, and discovered that it couldn't see the drive at all. So I rebooted again and clicked yes. It checked the disk, and gave me a huge number of swiftly-scrolling messages mentioning things like orphaned files, and then I could see the disk but everything that had been on it originally was gone. Quite a lot of what I'd copied onto it since I got it was still there, but in renamed folders.
It's now running the check. It'd be nice to get some of the stuff back, but none of it's personal or irreplaceable... I just hope it doesn't mean the drive's about to die.