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| Thread ID: 84886 | 2007-11-22 01:33:00 | Can this be accidental? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 613875 | 2007-11-22 01:33:00 | I have two hard disks and both are partitioned into two. I have one program which has sole occupancy of drive F. Last night this program started complaining about missing folders and files. After spending half the night and most of this morning trying to sort it out I eventualy found all the missing items in a folder called backups in "documents and settings" on C drive. All is now well. What is worrying me is how did it happen? I am getting the blame. "You must have dragged and dropped them accidentaly" is the common opinion. But the files came from different places. They were not a group. I may be old but I am not senile. Is there a logical explanation for such an occurance? Please say there is. And there is no other person here to have done it. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 613876 | 2007-11-22 01:43:00 | Sounds Odd alright - The first thing that comes to mind - but I'm prob way off the mark, is windows sometimes if it detects a possible sector fault moves files from the "about to fail" sectors to another section of the drive. This may have happened - but as I said more than likely way off the mark ?? Look in the event viewer - click start/run type in eventvwr look through and see if anything is logged as to what may have caused this. |
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| 613877 | 2007-11-22 02:10:00 | JJJJJ I feel the most likely cause is accidental drag and drop, by you or someone else. Can't recal bad sectors cleanly moving files into another directory, definitely lots of munted files and directories however lol. I would not let your age be a consideration, I have sorted out dozens of similar incidents over the years involving pretty much every age group and sex. At the end of the day it was "someones" accident, and it sounds like you sorted it out which is the main thing. Do a quick check Drop to a command prompt click "run" and type "CMD" and enter Type "chkdsk" and enter See if it shows any marked bad secotrs, otherwise run a full scan overnight. |
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