@schwurbel
From my Experience: the files aren’t actually “Deleted”
Back in the old days of my Original WDTV Gen 1, i went to play some movies of my then 120GB Seagate drive attached via USB to the WD Device. No Media Found
Plugged into my PC … Sure enough all the files were gone.
But, in PC settings Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management … The drive was there.
So, with nothing more to lose … I deleted the Partition and Quick Reformatted the Drive.
Then ran GetDataBack NTFS to attempt to recover my Movies…
A few hours later i successfully recovered 100% of all my movies.
Over the next Year and a Half … This happened on 2 or 3 occasions with other drives (even bigger ones) even when I always had “Ejected” the drive (or so i thought ?)
So i can only guess it’s the MBR (Master Boot Record) that gets corrupted on the drives (the Movies files are safely intact … Unless of course you write to the drive after it’s happened … Then you won’t get 100% recovery)
So, basically if it happens …
(1) Don’t Panic
(2) Have a spare HDD to Recover the files to
(3) Find something to do while the Recovery process is working (It can take a long time)
(4) Keep Backups (to avoid the above)
