You may take care of 25 companies, but what size are we talking? I work for a plane manufacturer, of which there are only two main ones in the entire world, one of them american, the other european,...

OK, not sure if you really understand my job.
But the idea is, I'm a desktop engineer, in my company, peoples laptops and desktops break daily, hdd dying etc... general corruption through failed...

I'm intrigued as to how you think incremental backup can help my situation? Please elaborate

Nice. In that case in gonna be sure to try this out on an Asrock board. And if they come up trumps. It might be an idea for me to send this info and Asus email to their r+D dept. I'm sure they'd love...

LMFAO, well I did say in an ideal world and lets face it, this ain't one.
Got a response from a very helpful soul at Asus named Matthew. Its wonderful, it reads: -
"We don't support overclocking"...

Trust me, I get that. I'm a regular around all sorts of gaming and tech places too, I've asked the question before somewhere and again, no-one seems to have experienced it but I 100% have many times....

OK. I have my final answer.

It was due to overclocking. I'd suspected that before, as its an issue that I've described to other techs and they've not seen it before. They don't overclock.

I...

I eject every drive properly. I do not shut down, there is no need, that is the point of hot swap technology.
Again...Does not happen in work, same process exactly using hot swap.

Bad or failing...

I'm not sure of a specific app but you could group the folder shortcuts in your start menu as an alternative.
Although I'd imagine there has got to be some kind of app that can do exactly that

Yes, it appears completely normal for all intents and purposes. I can navigate the drive fully.
I diskpart the drives everytime myself, first running a clean command, then I create a primary...

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So...Any ideas WTF is going on.
A few hints for reference: -
1) This has happened to me on and off for the past few years using all forms of Windows since at least Windows 8 x64, probably 7 too but...

Hi all

I'm a desktop engineer by trade to start with so am very familiar with most things that my topic covers. But this one issue has me a little bamboozled lol

In my work, I never experience...