Okay, this is very bizzare. Yesterday I ran Diskwarrior on my external 80gig hard drive because for some reason everytime i tried to copy a file to it, it would give me an error saying there was something wrong with the store_ds file (i dont remember the exact name, you guys know what i'm talking about). So, in an attempt to fix it, i run diskwarrior. It finds a whole bunch of stuff wrong with it (like over 50% out of place... i unfortunitly did not save the log file). I tell it to repair and rebuild the drive. It does it, works without a problem from then on.
However, today, I was looking around inside of hte drive and I notice a folder called "Damaged Items" randomly appeared. Obviously this is from diskwarrior because it was created yesterday (checked creation date). I open it and then I freak out. It has 27,064 items in it. All but about 40 of them at zero K in file size. All of my movies, old iphoto libraries, old design work, etc were in there.
Next thing I notice is that disk utilities says that the hard drive is only TWENTY gigs, instead of 80gigs. I'm am most puzzled by this.
Is this just the process of a dieing hard drive? Are all of my files gone forever from it in that horrible little "Damaged Items" folder? Please help!
Thanks in advance,
Shane
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