I have my main HDD partitioned into C and D with C for Windows 7 and misc user items, and D is for everything else including games.
I was playing BF3 when the power flashed at my house. It was a very quick flash, but enough to cuase a restart on my PC. After it started back up, it was slow and acting funny. I did a normal shutdown/restart and when it cam back up, all my game and .exe shortcut icon images show the generic image. After looking, I have now found that my D partition is gone. It still shows as D in My Computer, but is blank and states I need to format it before I can use it. As far as I can tell, the C partition is jsut fine.
So, a few questions now:
1 - How does only the game partiton get completely corrupted, yet the Windows partition seems fine? I never would have thought this was possible, but it's defintely better than losing the entire drive.
2 - Is there a way to recover this partition using an installed Windows untility perhaps?
3 - Should I be weary of the entire HDD, of would a reformat of the D partiton be fine if necessary?
I was playing BF3 when the power flashed at my house. It was a very quick flash, but enough to cuase a restart on my PC. After it started back up, it was slow and acting funny. I did a normal shutdown/restart and when it cam back up, all my game and .exe shortcut icon images show the generic image. After looking, I have now found that my D partition is gone. It still shows as D in My Computer, but is blank and states I need to format it before I can use it. As far as I can tell, the C partition is jsut fine.
So, a few questions now:
1 - How does only the game partiton get completely corrupted, yet the Windows partition seems fine? I never would have thought this was possible, but it's defintely better than losing the entire drive.
2 - Is there a way to recover this partition using an installed Windows untility perhaps?
3 - Should I be weary of the entire HDD, of would a reformat of the D partiton be fine if necessary?
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