HELP HELP DCS World totally disapeared from PC

[winchesterdelta1]

I don't know what the hell happened on my computer, but DCS World with the modules have totally disappeared, personal keyboard settings and all. Even the freaking torrent install files i downloaded.

The only traces i got are the shortcuts in the START menu, programs and features and the steam shortcut.

I have never ever seen this before. Even system restore can't find it.

I'm totally baffled on how this could have happened. Unless somebody manually deleted everything. But thats only possible if you know where DCS stores all its temp files and such as well.

I'm seriously lost.

 

How can i check if something malicious has been going on? Or things have been manually deleted.

Is there a program that can find and put back deleted files on your HDD.

 

Please help.

[Devrim]

Paranormal Activity.

[SkateZilla]

Undelete Programs rely on the integrity of the drive, and no Data being written to that drive after a file has been deleted.

 

It sounds like someone uninstalled DCSW and deleted your install files.

[winchesterdelta1]

That was my first guess as well. But now when i try to re-install it say's that it can't because the folder is still there?????

I'm seriously going mad. Never seen this before.

Also when i search for the DCS folder It finds a unknow file on my G drive called DCS world. It is 0 bytes, can not be restored or opened and when i try to look for it manually i can not find it.

Think i have to do a HDD check or something.

Edited August 1, 2013 by winchesterdelta1

[winchesterdelta1]

I actually found the file where the DCS world folder needed to be. it say's its 0kb big. and was changed the last time i played.

Any suggestions?

[Svend_Dellepude]

Sounds like a hdd failure.

 

Did you run chkdsk.exe?

Edited August 1, 2013 by Svend_Dellepude

[SkateZilla]

Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.* Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

 

Goto Windows Logs, Then System.. It will List any File System or harddisk corrupted block events.

[winchesterdelta1]

Did CHKDSK /F. But no HDD corruptions at all.

I tried re-install but it said DCS folder already exists not able to install. But that was the unknow file "DCS world" of 0 KB.

After i deleted that file DCS world installed normally. It should work now.

Going to test it.

Also going to check event viewer to see how this could have happened.

[winchesterdelta1]

Shit it hink it's time for a new HDD. I got this failure.

 

wuaueng.dll (1160) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database page read from the file "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb" at offset 98304 (0x0000000000018000) (database page 2 (0x2)) for 32768 (0x00008000) bytes failed verification. Bit 55634 was corrupted and has been corrected. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware and may continue. Transient failures such as these can be a precursor to a catastrophic failure in the storage subsystem containing this file. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

[Double_D]

Shit it hink it's time for a new HDD. I got this failure.

 

wuaueng.dll (1160) SUS20ClientDataStore: The database page read from the file "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb" at offset 98304 (0x0000000000018000) (database page 2 (0x2)) for 32768 (0x00008000) bytes failed verification. Bit 55634 was corrupted and has been corrected. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware and may continue. Transient failures such as these can be a precursor to a catastrophic failure in the storage subsystem containing this file. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

 

Sorry man that sucks...:mad:

[winchesterdelta1]

Time for a SSD anyway :) This HDD is 7 years old.