Windows 10: Windows 10 Just Wiped A Ton of Data!

vram said:

Armchair hindsighting here but if your data is important, you need to be backing up.

Just some friendly advice for future reference :)

That was the whole point, I was doing data maintenance for work prior to backing the whole drive up for archival. It exploded into a million pieces before I could do that.

Anyhow, recovered what I could and will let IT deal with it on Monday.

Damn lousy timing for that failure.