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okay...okay....admins are not chill with us doing tech blogs...but i gotta do it.
2 Terabytes gone? what....the ..fuck...?
i formatted some internal 160GB drive that was in the D:\ drive slot.
then i changed its path to the :H\ drive slot. then, after that 160GB format was done, i inserted a 2TB internal drive full of data. and i assigned it to D:\ then i shut down my comp.
next thing i know, i open my computer some 5 hours later and the 2TB drive is FORMATTED?!?!  0.000bytes of DATA on IT?? WTF
thankfully i got a very same 2TB back-up drive containing the very same data stored in my Grandma's basement (thank god)...but still ...WTF is this shit.
i am insane? or is this normal.
 
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EDIT: Nvm i figured it out
It sounds like some problem with your SATA controller, something messed up to cause it to format the drive. There's a whole host of problems but you could probably start with using a disk check utility to make sure it's not messed up, if you're using onboard motherboard SATA switch to a card and vice versa if you can't fix your problem.
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I'm having a hard time determining the course of action here but this isn't normal and you're most likely sane...
Try it on a different SATA slot.
Note that hard drives die a lot (especially seagate!!)
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thats my worst nightmare right there :S
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i got into some fight with my mother tonight....and with my father too..but to a lesser extent...
( then i was gone most of the night)...
im trying to figure out if this shit is caused by them ( they know i love having lots of data, and how time consuming it is for me...so they're kinda against it) but usually...when things are bad at home, .they have a tendency to fuck up my work place physically (moving stuff all over the place)...but they've NEVER played with my comp, i dont think they would do that....usually my mom just kidnaps my fuckin' case and my monitor... some stuff on my computer table was moved tho.... anyhow...dude...wtf, i dont know.
i use my MOBO's default sata hookups, and i do NOT run RAID arrays of any kind...
dude, before anything i had on hand;
1- my 80GB OS drive; ( that didnt change)
2- a 160GB drive, half fulll.
3 -a 2TB drive, 99% full.
now my goal was to format my 160GB drive. and also, i wanted to change the path letters.
im 200% sure i didnt click on "format this 2TB drive" ...im not that stupid, and it usually takes 4 hours. which wasnt nearly close to how long my computer was powered on.
just before i formatted my 160GB, i took my 2TB out of my computer (pulled the plug on the SATA)
just to be safe i guess...and because i dont like my slow ass comp to handle too many drives when its doing formatting. then after the format was done, i hooked up my 2TB back on, and assigned it to D:\ then i shut down..
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wow i hope they didn't fuck with your stuff
I might lose it lol. i generally keep pretty calm but that kind of vindictiveness could make me go apeshit
my recommendation if it turns out it is formatted and it is doomed: pretend u got a crazy virus on it and you had to format it.
also.. out of curiosity.. what do you have 2 tb of? pirated shit?
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Is your OS drive a SSD? =P
And use a linux boot CD or something like that to make sure your HD is empty. Maybe Windows is having trouble seeing it or something.
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It's time to crack skulls.
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Use SequoiaView, it is freeware, to see where your missing memory is
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meh..........fuck that...using all those little programs wont ever recover 2TB...not in their entirety...
and that would take way too long...
i might as well just go get my backup drive at my Grandma's and copy the full shit 
anyways...fuck that...i did a full format today.. (on top of the ghost format)....
still...this is the most retarded thing that ever happened to me in my computing career
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EPT
