Deleted Files off my external

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  I just bought a new laptop which is windows 8 so I put the files I wanted to keep off my old vista desktop onto a 1.5 TB Western Digital External Hard Drive

  Well when i plugged the hard drive into my new laptop I opened it it took a couple seconds to load (which i figured okay first time plugged in) but then a new window opened Moving to recycling bin or something along those lines, I hit more info and it showed nothing so i found the small x near the words and hit that.

  While looking through my hard drive i noticed multiple different files were gone and some folders, so I unplugged the drive and went looking on the web for recovery programs and found a couple that showed many more files deleted than I previously knew videos, pictures, and even game files from sims 3.

  I have no idea why this happened and would like to know how to stop it from ever happening again, There were no viruses/malware or anything like that as I run scans to keep ahead of junk like that.

  There was no confirmation or anything about deleting it just started doing it on its own.

  Friday, January 31, 2014 5:33 AM