Window 10 has disappeared... o.O

[Wiebob]

Too make a long story short, my son accidentally spilled a full glass of water into his computer, in the middle of the night, when reaching for it. Lot of damage, and have since replaced his mainboard and processor.
With his main drive connected, I couldn't even get the Windows installation to start, so I put a spare 500GB drive in. Everything went fine from there, everything's installed and working great.
However, when I connected his old drive (not set as a boot option in BIOS), and booted up, it seems to have slowed the startup process. When I finally got to the desktop, I found I had access to the drive. But...Windows 10 is no longer there, nor any other files or folders that were originally there. All that's there now are a LOT of dump*****.tmp files, all approx 600MB files.
Any idea what these are? I'd originally hoped I could recover some files for him before formatting the drive... 🙁

 

[wpgwpg]

I've never seen this particular error before, but I can say this is just one of many, many reasons you need to back your system up to an external hard drive.

Good luck.

 

[basroil]

1) That drive is probably corrupted as hell. You can try recuva and other recovery tools to see if you can find something, but it's possible that you'll get nothing.
2) You need to set up a no-open-drinks policy and stick to it with strict punishments. It sounds harsh, but you'll reduce water damage by 100%

 

[Wiebob]

As it turns out, everything left on the drive totaled approx 32GB...far from the approx 2TB he had on there, so we just formatted and got on with it.
LOL, and as for the no-drink policy? I didn't even have to bring it up, my son did all on his own... 😉