My 250 GB Seagate External backup drive (about 2 years old) was working fine and I only use it about 2-4 times a month for backup purposes. When transferring some data I received an error message that windows could not find the path directory and the drive was no longer showing up under My Computer. This happened before a month ago and was corrected after a restart. Though this time, when I restarted the PC, the drive came up as the F local drive instead of the usual E drive and it was empty. When I opened up its properties it showed 0 capacity and 0 free space. Getting a bit nervous that I had lost about 175Gb of archives, I connected the external drive to my laptop only to find the same properties coming up on the F drive (again skipping the available E drive space). Any help is much appreciated.
