Hi Everyone,
I have a little mystery here. I hope the list can help me to solve it. I have a HP Envy, running Windows 8.1 and JAWS 16. I just had about 50 or so files to just up and disappear. The actual disappearance isn't a big deal. All of the files were MP3s, ripped from CD. I back up regularly and I just restored them from the latest backup. However, it worries me that they disappeared in the first place. As far as I can tell, the files were not hidden, they were just gone. Norton gives me a clean bill of health and, anyway, I wouldn't think that a virus would mess with only 50 user files out of 50,000. All of these particular files were ripped on the same day, about six months ago. As they were all ripped back to back and my HD has very low fragmentation, I assume that they were stored roughly sequentially on the HD. This has me wondering if I have a HD sector going bad, although the Windows disk checking tool shows that the HD is OK. I did update to Windows 8.1 a couple weeks ago but I wouldn't think that the update would have anything to do with this. Seems to me that the most likely explanation is a HD starting to go south. I've been planning on switching to a SSD anyway but didn't want to spend the money just yet. Anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem may be or how I can investigate further? Thanks, Scott Duck For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
