Lost partition

Sometime last week I was rendering a Quicktime movie from AVID Express.

I left my computer alone, then went to work (after all, the movie was over 1 hour long).

I get home, and guess what? I can't access anything on my brand new 160GB Hard Drive.

Restart

Then Windows says that my drive needs to be formatted.

When I went into the drive properties it says that the total size of the drive was 0 bytes.

I formatted the *peach* thing, and brought up my back-ups, and everything is ok (I think).

Does anyone know why or how this could happen?

i dont really know how this happen ....But it obviusly yyour HD was damaged by any programs running ......Maybe your program genereates a GPF and *peach* everything... check your updating list of your prog......ALso a worm could destroy your MBR ....etc

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good luck!



sometimes ish happens you know!

speaking of worms have you heard of the new trojan that an get into your cam and see you I havent heard too much about it course i dont have cam so i am not too concerned but consider the source to that could be devistating arg!


http://earthlink.com.com/Virus+alert:+S ... 20674.html

Thanks for your replies everyone.

Every time I think about it, I think about how VALUABLE back ups are.

The cause of this incident may be a mystery forever, but at least a lesson is learned.

Thanks again

Sometimes it happend to me to don't recognize the HDD or the CD, I speak with a friend of mine that work for an international computer company and he told me that could be various problems.
1. Mainboard - actually the controller
2. Cables
3. Bios
4. The component is broken

Regarding that worm (virus) i don't believe that if you have a good firewall can spy. Or do as I done, pass to Linux. Linux rulz

Regards,
Ovi