It would appear as though CHKDSK deleted 400-500GB's on second hard drive in my computer and I am curious how to prevent this from happening again, how to recover them, and if the drive itself is still ok to use. Apologies for the length, trying to be thorough.
My computer has 3 HD's, HD 1 is C: drive and runs Win 10 and all the programs including Adobe Lightroom, HD 2 is only photographs plus my Adobe Lightroom catalog, HD 3 is an old drive I rarely use with Win7 OS on it.
I was running Lighroom and asked it to do a big task and shortly later the computer shut down. Once restarted it ran automatically ran CHKDSK when I wasn't looking and it started 'Deleting orphan file segments', 'Deleting index entry files', etc for quite a while. I thought it was running CHKDSK on HD 1/WIN 10 but once the computer restarted Win7 opened and my Win 10 drive was nowhere to be found.
I replaced the HD 1 SATA cable and moved it to a new SATA port, my Win10 drive started working again and I thought all was fine, problem solved. It turns out CHKDSK was running on HD 2 and it deleted a couple years worth of photographs and corrupted my Lightroom catalog. The vast majority of which I do have backed up.
Why would CHKDSK automatically run on startup for this hard drive and delete my files?
I ran Recuva on it and it found some of the files though it seems to be unable to restore them. Is there a better way recover files lost to CHKDSK?
Is this hard drive safe to continue? Is there any thing I should do before dumping my backup folders back onto this drive?
And how can I make CHKDSK never run again unless I ask it to?
Thank you
My computer has 3 HD's, HD 1 is C: drive and runs Win 10 and all the programs including Adobe Lightroom, HD 2 is only photographs plus my Adobe Lightroom catalog, HD 3 is an old drive I rarely use with Win7 OS on it.
I was running Lighroom and asked it to do a big task and shortly later the computer shut down. Once restarted it ran automatically ran CHKDSK when I wasn't looking and it started 'Deleting orphan file segments', 'Deleting index entry files', etc for quite a while. I thought it was running CHKDSK on HD 1/WIN 10 but once the computer restarted Win7 opened and my Win 10 drive was nowhere to be found.
I replaced the HD 1 SATA cable and moved it to a new SATA port, my Win10 drive started working again and I thought all was fine, problem solved. It turns out CHKDSK was running on HD 2 and it deleted a couple years worth of photographs and corrupted my Lightroom catalog. The vast majority of which I do have backed up.
Why would CHKDSK automatically run on startup for this hard drive and delete my files?
I ran Recuva on it and it found some of the files though it seems to be unable to restore them. Is there a better way recover files lost to CHKDSK?
Is this hard drive safe to continue? Is there any thing I should do before dumping my backup folders back onto this drive?
And how can I make CHKDSK never run again unless I ask it to?
Thank you