I hate filesystems..with a passion

So yesterday, the worst thing that could happen did.

I was browsing my external NTFS formatted 200 GB hard drive.

I get to my anime folder and once I click it, the computer tells me that this folder is invalid and corruput.

So I think...what the hell.

And start checking all the other folders on the drive.

Now, EVERY single folder is "corrupt".

<insert cursing and hammers to the computer case in pure hatred and anger>

So I go in and backup all the data using getbackdata ntfs and all is good.

I have my data backed up on another drive (all of it....everything was recoverable)

So I go in disk manage in Windows XP and guess what...


I found out that that drive doesn't have a filesystem associated with it.


SOO

That means, all of a sudden, while browsing through that hard drive, the filesystem suddenly dissapeared????

What the hell?

Filesystem's don't just dissappear. It's like magically removing carpet in a room. You don't move it unless there isn't anything on top of it...

So I just reformatted the drive to NTFS..again.

I still don't know why the hell that happened.

Maybe the drive is failing. I think there are some tools to check to see if it is physically failing.

Did you try running checkdisk/chkdsk?

Aren't you being just a bit apocalyptic?
It's not the worst that could've happened.