Ps3 games mysterious disappearance :(

Hi all!!!

All my games that i had on the HDD just disappear,i enter the manager and their not there.The first time that this happend was in the early stage of the jailbreak i had some games on the internal HDD of the PS3 and when i deleted Backup Manager and instaled a new manger all my games from the internal HDD were deleted,i guess it was because i deleted the Manager.The second time was 2 days ago,i turned the ps3 on,i used a psbreak 1.1 with Open Manager 2.1 G and a 1TB external HDD,when i opened the manager(it wasn't the first time i used this manager) there were no games only the blueray one,when i connected the external HDD to my pc there was no gamez folder on it,when i checked the space there were 350 GB used space(the games) but i can't see the gamez folder with the games and now don't know what to do,can anybody give me some advice? Sry for my bad english.

Sounds like the Gamez folder has been deleted from your external.

Download Active @ partition recovery and scan the HDD for the deleted files if indeed they have been deleted. This will give you a full image of what's actually on the HDD.

I managed to delete my backup of GOWIII by accident and didn't want to re-rip if I could help it (takes ages), so I was able to recover it with that proggy.

It should include a file recovery as well as a partition recovery program, beware though, it can take a while depending on the structure of the HDD and the mode of scan.

What i find strange is that it is showing 350gig used space so leads me to think of 3 things

1, Deleted and it is in your recycle bin (till it is emptied it will show on the hdd)
2, Change the folder options to show hidden files/folders and see if it hows up
3, Like Xeauron says use a undelete program to scan the drive for the missing games.

I looked in recycle bin it wasn't there,i changed the folder still nothing,now i'm trying the program it takes about 6 hours thanks for the help

No probs, let us know how you get on.

You might want to try a 'quick scan' using the file recovery program included first before you try the 6-8 hour deep scan.

Have you tried modifying the folder options to show hidden files or show protected system files?

yes and no luck,now i'm waiting for the scan to complete

Let us know how it goes, I must admit I am intrigued on this one.

If it was a new hdd then you should be able to restore the full lot.......

However they do advise you to restore them to a seperate hdd when using these programs so if you have the space restore to your pc's hdd.