First off, I'm not some noob that knows nothing of computers, I work on them all the time and build them for all my friends... Ok, tell me what you guys think. I'm running a fairly new compaq Presario 2100, yes laugh if you must, but for 900$ 40gb drive, 512mb ram, and 15" screen couldnt go wrong. Ok, I was working on some school work, stuck in my jumpdrive and the computer froze, I thought damn, have to write this short paper over, ok fine. Turn it off, turn it back on, windows gives me an "Unmountable boot volume" error on startup. I said the hell with this, and went to sleep. (after about 30 minutes of trying to figure out how to fix this) (And I tried the recovery console from CD) So now, I just woke up, and my computer's hard drive is 38124MB, and has 38124MB free. So what the hell happened? It had all my data last night... It just dissapeared. Right now i'm running knoppix on my laptop... Somebody please help!!