Data missing, can't make sense of it.

blargs

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Good morning everyone,

Wondering if anyone has ever seen/experienced this problem. I had a 2 TB HD in my PC that ran over to my Patriot Box Office to play media on my TV. I've recently noticed that about half the media on this drive has been erased. All my music (two different folders), and about half of my movies are all gone. I originally suspected either my wife deleting the files herself (we're having some problems and she can be quite spiteful) or that she had given one of her friends access to my PC and they did the dirty work. Other than that, only one significant event stands out in my mind. Last week I removed all the RAM then returned all the sticks to the motherboard later in the evening. In my head this made no sense for removing/replacing RAM to affect a HD, but that is the one significant event I can think of, other than a single power bump. And even if this did have an effect, why only delete about half of the data on the drive?

Also, I have ran some file recovery software and salvaged about 20 songs and 10 movies. Makes me wonder just how much may have been available to recover anyways, aka, the files weren't deleted per say.

Weird question I know, but any help is appreciated. Thank you.
 
No one can predict how much success you will have on recovery. But if you have write too much data on it, the recovery rate is probably quite high. I haven't had a problem with HDD deleting stuff all on its own. It is very likely to be a human error (>99.95%), usually someone try to do a copy paste but instead accidentally click or press the wrong key and made a cut paste. If the files are important to you, always have back up.