All my anime has Dissapeared!
I turned on my computer this morning and ran azereus for a while, and when i came back (a few hours later), all of the anime on my computer had been deleted. It wasn't in the recycling bin or anything and all the folders that it HAD been in were now empty. No one says that they touched my computer at all and i know I didn't delete them, does anyone know what might have happened or if theres anyway to recover them. Or at the very least help figure out what happened, I'm a little distraught about this, it was over 40 gigs. Also Azereus can't find the torrent files either, for downloading or seeding.
Much thanks ~Scott |
Did you by any chance have that folder located in the "My Documents" folder?
It should be possible to recover the files using data recovery programs. I made a thread about data recovery, and many programs - they should be able to help you, too. Running scandisk might turn up your files as well, but they'd likely all be renamed as a result. What security software are you running? Did you do anything out of the ordinary with your system recently? Any Windows updates? |
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It is very strange that the folder where your anime was in located is still intact, but everything inside it dissapeared. Maybe you accidentally wrote over the existing files. I hope that did not happen but that is all I can think of that might have happened . . . . :uhoh: |
No they were right in the "my computer" directory. I have AVG anti spyware and anti virus (both free) and zone alarm firewall (also free, what can i say I'm a moocher ^^; ). I'll try the data recovery stuff now too. Thanks a lot
btw, i have been trying to do burn dvds but for some reason or another a complication arises and i put iust off again >.> |
ok i ran PC Inspector and recovered some of it... i think... they're over 400 files on my desktop now saying cluster so-and-so
help?! |
Sounds like the file system of the hard drive was badly corrupted. Recovering from problems like that might be a bit tricky, as even if files are recovered the tool that recovers them might not know what file is what (and gives everything generic names).
Another tip for the future: if you're running XP, make sure the file system is NTFS and not FAT. FAT (or FAT32 to be precise) is more likely to corrupt in this way than NTFS is. |
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There's also possibility your harddisk is damaged/exposed to magnetic field so your data's corrupted... |
For the future, don't store stuff in "My Computer." Anyone reading this, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd just imagine that it'd make data recovery a bit more difficult if you have to manually find the directory. Where does My Computer reside, and on which drive? Too much trouble, just put it in a hard drive's base level if nothing else.
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My Computer just lists all drives. Though it is more a view on devices than a precise declaration of the storage area.
Actually it doesn't matter where the files reside logically on the disk. More important is their physical residence. That the files suddenly disappeared without a warning or a crash is very unlikely. I don't know what to think about this case. edit: NightWish been faster :D |
don't think it's HDD failure, if it were, wouldn't the HDD be pretty much stuffed from all points? ie XP would have major issues even if it did boot up. If it was a bad sector or cluster, the files still should be there just unusable. If it was magnetic field damage I doubt that'd be just your problems. I may be wrong though
I say someone's been lying and deleted stuff. I mean if the directory's still there but empty, someone else would have had to go in and select those items and delete. I don't know of any spyware/malware/virus that just targets specific media files. I mean maybe there is that'll attack specific file types, but that'd mean all files on your pc that are of the same type are gone. Nor do I think that some freak act of nature would just delete those files only and leave everything else intact. This is just my assumption. From what you say ths PC is shared by other people. |
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Seriously, though, it's pretty unlikely for there to be a software or hardware failure with an unique output like that. The first guess, of course, is always a hard drive failure, but like hobbes_fan pointed out, it's pretty strange, not to say impossible, to have an HDD failure that affects a single logical directory. And it'd be the first time I hear about malware attacking media files. |
Could have something to do with Java. Azureus on Linux often gives me I/O Errors and Disk Write Errors, while the disk is perfectly healthy.
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I've had those on utorrent on XP, but it only affects files being d/l (but forcing it to resume usually has no ill effects) files are perfectly playable after they finish. I think ts more of a fault of the client manglng the packets of data so they don't match with what's been d/l.
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Horo, are you saying ONLY the anime disappeared.
I suggest you just try to give a try at recovering the data before indulging in more exotic possibilities. ( See Ledgem's first post ) Quote:
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My comment on the physical residence of data was meant to deal with the hardware failure idea. A hardware failure would cause data faults at certain physical regions, possibly affecting several logical data structures. But to affect only certain logical anime related regions (entirely), that would be a very unlikely (impossible) scenario for a hardware failure. |
Ok sorry for taking so long to reply, Nightwish was right it was in the root directory of the HDD (ie the path was e:\New Folder).
Syaoran- I don't think i've gotten errors like that from azerus Cats- To my Knowledge it was everything in that folder (there was non-anime stuff too) and nothing else (again to my knowledge i Haven't checked too hard) so I'm a little confused about how to actually recover these files if i can. Should i just delete all the clusters lying around on my desktop? |
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My HDD is relatively new its from Tigerdirect its a 160gb E-IDE (product name is something like Maxtor 6G160P0 It could be magnetic something although i hope not. and finally my hard drive is formatted in NTFS right now |
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