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

  • 25-06-2019 09:40PM
    #1
    Occono
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    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/


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