Hi everyone,
As soon as this is my first post | would like to congratulate Piriform for the great utilities and the continuous effort to improve them.
So some basic information about the case:
Hard disk Western Digital 500GB Formated as Primary NTFS Single Partition under Windows XP No OS is installed on this drive.
As you probably read from the Topic Title some files on my hard disk went zero size.
The problem applied on several file types including .avi, .wmv, .jpg, .xml. As far as this hard drive is used for storing these kind of files I suppose it affected all file types without exclusion.
The files appear normally at Windows Explores The right filenames and folder structure exists.
Also files affected independently the file modification date or any other characteristic as I can understand.
So the problem Is that The files are not deleted and as i found from Recuva they do not have cluster or header information ether.
The weird thing also is that using Recuva to recover a video file the file name did not match the content of the file!
Probably Causes
#1: Virus, but only if the virus could affect special part of the disk and ignore other characteristics.
#2: (Mostly Valid I think) During Defragment process using Paragon HDM 2008 Boot-Disk the proses stooped for several hours so I had to perform reset!
#3: My drive was bewitched (maybe in an other universe!)
So no progress has been made using CheckDisk or other commercial recovery software.
I tried to describe the problem briefly If there are more information that is needed please ask me.
Any help would be helpful because I have not yet identified the type of the problem so I can search for solution,
I did not found similar case on Google and I am wondering how common is that.
Thank you
