Working on a PC for someone with a virus, my desktop is out out of commission so I got an external drive enclosure to use for this ATA drive out of a gateway computer, I hooked it all up and powered on the enclosure and was able to see the drive in my windows vista machine I saw an F and a G, F being the little recovery partition G being the primary partition with all the data on the drive, I was able to run a virus scan, a spyware scan, even defrag the hard drive without a single issue, I shut everything down and come back later on that evening and everything that was on the primary partition was gone, what was almost a 200GB partition shows as totally empty and windows tells me if I want to use it I must format it…which I did not do of course…so did I mess something up? did I maybe shut something off in the wrong order? is this guys stuff totally gone?
