Hello folks,
So I have this Windows 7 Pro computer attached to a videomicroscope. It has two drives, one for C: and D: for DATA. The data consists mainly of .TIF files of a few Mb, but literally millions of them. So there are a lot of writes happenning when someone is doing an acquisition or when old data is scrubbed (that needs to happen regularly or the drive gets filled up pretty quick).
The issue is that for the second time (in a few months), the filesystem of this data drive gets messed up badly. When trying to access it through windows, it asks to format it because the NTFS partition is not recognized anymore. The drive hardware is fine, it's really the partition table (GPT) that get