Im running windows XP and I decided to partion my harddrive into 2. One for windows and one for general stuff.
I left my computer off for a week and when I returned my "general" partion of hard disk space has disappeared, and when opening programs it "cant find the link." I have no idea why its done this.
My computer operated windows XP sp2, and have 3 hard drives conntected
1. HD 0 is 160 GB divided into 2 partiotions, one 20 GB containing the system the other 140 Gb containes data directories and film directories2. HD 1 is 120 Gb connected through mobile rack and also contains data directories and film directories3. HD 2 is 200 Gb connected through mobile rack and contains only film directories.Untill thursday night everything was perfect, but when i I opened my computer friday morning i found the following1. HD 0 second partition all film directories completly disappeared and the free space is 40 Gb instead of the original 50 Gb
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