stumpymcdonut
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As the title says, when I restart my laptop (acer aspire 3810t, upgraded from Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit) files that have been recently edited/accessed will still be on the hard drive, although appear as 0 bytes (I'm not sure whether they are still using the same space on the disk as the problem occurs pretty much at random and only to recently accessed files, although I can try and work out whether it does if needed).
Recently (couple months ago), the laptop began to require chkdsk numerous times (weekly, then every few days, then every 2-3 days, etc) in order to keep it working properly (there is usually a good handful of orphaned files, up to a few hundred), before this issue has started occurring.
I'm wondering whether this may simply be the hard drive failing or having a bad sector, or a software/malware issue that needs fixing, I can provide any information necessary as this issue is becoming extremely annoying and has recently gotten to the point where it is becoming impossible to use the computer properly (as any recently downloaded/created files will appear as 0 bytes after a reboot, which is incredibly frustrating and means pretty much nothing can be done)
Thanks for any help that anyone can give, as mentioned I will try and give any information necessary.
Recently (couple months ago), the laptop began to require chkdsk numerous times (weekly, then every few days, then every 2-3 days, etc) in order to keep it working properly (there is usually a good handful of orphaned files, up to a few hundred), before this issue has started occurring.
I'm wondering whether this may simply be the hard drive failing or having a bad sector, or a software/malware issue that needs fixing, I can provide any information necessary as this issue is becoming extremely annoying and has recently gotten to the point where it is becoming impossible to use the computer properly (as any recently downloaded/created files will appear as 0 bytes after a reboot, which is incredibly frustrating and means pretty much nothing can be done)
Thanks for any help that anyone can give, as mentioned I will try and give any information necessary.