Not sure if Malware or just a bad accident, but I uninstalled D

Occono

I installed...abandonware. You can't buy it anymore and for Win 10 you probably need a crack if you did. Maybe I won't name the game but really, it's not for sale, it was pulled from Steam. Anyway. It installed fine. Played fine. But I uninstalled it. And.....D is gone. The drive is....empty. Poof. I mean, it's there, but gone.

I think, after internally crying I worked out what happened, though, I don't know how Windows 10 just doesn't see this having happened:

https://minimaxir.com/2013/06/working-as-intended/

I moved the game to its own folder. It worked as a portable file. But when I first installed it, it installed the game files to D. Just root D, by accident.

I think it uninstalled D.


I'm not a tech wizard (I should have been but...............oh let's not) but I think.....it's like the files have a 0 in their name, so Windows will treat them as overwritable areas on the disk. How can I get Windows.....to SEE the files in D? To see the files it can't see? If I understand this right?

Panicked Reddit version of this here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/c5cq44/my_d_drive_has_wiped_itself/

Occono

And I think I worked it out. I'm trying Testdisk and Recuva now.

The game, installed to D. The game files, in D. I moved them manually to a subfolder, they worked portably, I didn't think of the possible issue. The uninstaller may not have been malware, but was suffering the same issue seen here:

https://minimaxir.com/2013/06/working-as-intended/

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/9418t5/psa_the_magic_arena_installer_can_still_delete/

It installed the game to D. So it UNINSTALLED D. Why the **** Windows 10 doesn't see an issue with everything in D going poof suddenly I don't know.

I hate this but...man if I'm right I should have gone into computers.