OK I do not know if this was a coincidence or a serious bug in CCleaner V. 2.00.491 (BETA)
but I installed CCleaner set all the settings to the way I want them and ran it once
I then left my computer (powered on as usual) for a few hours.
when I came back a drive letter was missing (F:)
I have 3 HD drives but many partitions on 2 of them
this one (F:) is my smallest drive and the only partition on that drive
I thought maybe the SATA cable came loose or something so I made sure the
SATA cable was seated firmly
it was
so I thought maybe a reboot but I was not 2 worried about it yet
as i had only one game and some back-up files on this drive (Nothing important)
well this morning I rebooted to see if I got my drive back
NO the drive shows up in hardware profiles AND computer management
but the partition is gone
I?m not sure yet HOW it got deleted but here are some basic things I know
NOT to be the problem
1) the only change I made to my PC before this happened was to install CCleaner beta
2) I do not have a virus and no spyware on my computer
3) My technical skill can be consider expert, I use to run and maintain a company?s entire network
and fix all my families and friends computers
My OS is:
Windows XP with all updates
2 Virus Scanners
1 spyware scanner
and Hitman Pro ran once a week
Zonealarm Firewall
My system specs are:
DFI LanpartyUT nF4 Ultra-D
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
2x OCZ Gold Edition 1GB PC-4000
Maxtor 6Y120L0 PATA
WDC WD5000KS SATA
Maxtor 6Y060M0 SATA <-- the bad one
I am not asking for technical help. I have not even tried to recover the data yet.
Also the drive tests as healthy.
I downloaded this program from this main site and have not made any other changes to
My PC since installing CCleaner
but because this was the only change made I decided to post here what happened to me
here incase of the chance it was CCleaner.
as a finale note
Q: Do I believe it was CCleaner that deleted my partition ?
A: NO (I think there is a low probability of this but can?t rule it out)
Q: why did I make this post if I think CCleaner did not delete my partition and that it was just a fluke of nature that the deletion of my partition and installing CCleaner (Beta) happened at the same time ?
A: the answer to this is 2 fold
A1: I cannot rule out the possibility that CCleaner has done this
A2: ?IF? CCleaner DID do this I think this post needed to be made
take care
A1yet