Weirdest problem I've ever encountered....

[ViperMagic]

I know this could be considered wrong forum, but its remotly related to hardware, and I really would like an explaniation.

I got in on the Maxtor 120 deal today, and I bring it home and swap it for my dying 3GB boot drive. All goes well, I set up windows XP and everything, etc etc. I got to installing the drivers for my RAID array, which is my main storage drive, and restarted and went to eat dinner. When i came back i saw this scrolling across the screen:

"Replaceing invalid security ID with default security ID for file xxxxxx"

It went through, I assume, all the files on the array.

Alls well and good, get to my desktop a bit later, and I go to play with some of my data... and its GONE. Not all of it mind you, just about 40 GB is missing. The drive formats to 111GB, and there was about 18 free when I swapped drives. Funny thing is, it still says the same amount is used and free, but theres 40 gigs of data i dont know where it is. I ran chkdsk on it and it checked out fine. Anyone know how to fix this, preferably clean and fast with my data intact? I'm trying a data recovery app now, so other suggestions as to how to fix it or why it happened are very much appreciated.

 

[zephyrprime]

Can it be that you somehow lost access to the 40GB file on the drive? So XP is preventing you from seeing it for security reasons?

I would try to do a sector-by-sector copy of your 3GB drive onto your 120GB drive.

Either that or try logging in with administrator privilages (or are you already doing that?).

 

[ViperMagic]

I'm already logged in as Administrator, they stil arn't there. Recovery program sees them, but sucks, does anyone know a good free one that I can use? Thanks.