I will start with a brief history. I had a 3TB mybook live that ended up with a bricked hard drive. I replaced the drive with instructions found on this forum site. The new drive has been in working operation for approximately 2 months. I restored a large portion of the lost date from back-ups that were on other drives. All the restored information has accessible and useable.
I recently began reorganizing some of the video files that were placed on the drive. I added folders, renamed files, moved files, etc. This was done after I had added approximately 20 movies. The next day after reorganization my PS3 would not recognize some of the video files. I kept getting an erros saying that the files were unsupported. Where I don’t normally find this alarming, because the ps3 does not play all types of media formats, i noticed at the top of the screen a note saying that the files had, and I am now paraphrasing, “a http accessing error”. I went to a my PC (windows 7 operating system) and opened the drive through a file explorer. The files all appeared as well as the the new file structures that I had made. I accessed one of the files that was inaccessible through the ps3 and began to play the movie at the computer. No problems there… Huh, I thought.
The next day my wife mentioned that none of the video files were accessible though the WD media server that we have in another room. That night I open the mybook live software through the computer. All files were still present. I have had in the past, had errors with the drive not listing new files through the ps3. I have always solved this problem by having the Mybook live software run a short diagnostic of the drive. This is were I bagan to solve the problem. I ran the short diagnostic and no errors were found. Next, I noticed that I needed a firmware updated. I started the firmware update. At 99% complete on the download, I received a download error. I restarted the firmware update, which sucessfully finished and installed.
I then went to view my files from the pc explorer. This is when I found that the files structures that I had recently made were not there. I also noted that all the the files that I had recently added were all gone. It appeared is if the disk reverted to a state of about amonth prior. This looked as if i had restored a safepoint. The really odd thing, I had never created a safepoint for the drive since I had rebuilt it. Any thoughts??
The resultant data loss is more annoying than anything. I can re-obtain the lost data and create safepoonts, back-ups etc. The real question is, why did my drive revert to a prior state and what happened to the data that was deleted?
Dave