Hello Everyone,
My computer gave me a wonderful Christmas present by erasing all my programs (Program Files (86x) on one of my drives. And i cannot figure out why, how or what is doing it.
The facts: Earlier today i noticed about half of my desktop icons were missing (mostly games), looked in program files to see half the folders were gone.
Restore Point for yesterday: Negative, no help
Scanned for viruses: Negative.
Checked if they were hidden: Negative
Installed and used recovery program: Found all the missing folders, files were corrupt though
Started moving any non corrupt files back on the computer. Rebooted only to find the rest of my program files got wiped (everything except for two folders which are empty)
All other files on this drive (E Drive) are unaffected and my C drive SSD, (holding all windows files, most used programs, etc) has also be unaffected
Changes made today: Changed anti virus (although the first wipe was before i changed anti virus and the second wipe was after i uninstalled it because i thought it may have been the cause).
Definitely the weirdest computer problem i have found. Any help offered would be awesome!
Thanks in advance,
Lachlan