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[Windows 7] Scandisk corrupted my hard drive

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I recently installed Windows 7 x64. When I plugged in my external USB drive, it brought up the scan disk box and said I should check for errors. Ran it, and later I found some of my folders/files were corrupted. Tried a couple unerase utilities to get my critical info back, and failed. So, I ran scandisk again. Now almost all the files read as corrupted and it asks me to format the hard drive. Help!

I've never seen scandisk every ruin anything, but anything is possible.

First two ideas
#1. HD was about to fail anyway
#2. Scandisk exposed a problem and exasperated the issue when trying to fix it.
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