Today, I have opened my computer and clicked on recent files. I clicked on a folder containing some word documents. One of them is named "filming order". I clicked on it and it opened just like normal. All of this is in an external hard drive connected to my computer. I have made some changes to the file and decided to save it. But instead of saving like normal, the "Save As" came up as if this was a new file. I was confused so I cancelled it.
I closed the word document but it says that the name of the document is MV110 or something like that (some capital letters and random numbers) instead of "filming order". I clicked no to save since I thought something was wrong and when I came back to the folder, the document "filming order" was gone. I used the search and searched the entire computer and recycle bin, it wasn't there, the good thing is that that document wasn't that important and I can re-make it but now I start to doubt the trustworthiness of my external hard drive, there are files on the hard drive that are really important and took a lot of hard work to make, I don't want to lose them as well, I started to copy over the most important items from the hard drive to an internal hard drive on the computer so I have backup.
I have tried clicking on the "filming order.docx" in the recent documents area in word 2007 but it says that the file doesn't exist (at least not anymore). Should I be worried? I'm currently checking for problems using the command prompt, hopefully everything will be alright. If anyone know what has happened please tell me.
PS. Note that I don't mind whether I get the file back or not since it wasn't that important I just want to make sure it won't happen again.
