ESO wiped my HD

samuelmaluwb16_ESO

Sigh. I did not click any popups. Only thing I did today was, like normal people do, click the ESO launcher to start the game/ but instead of the launcher I got the windows message, couldn't find etcetc. So I went to the drive where I installed ESO to find out not only ESO was deleted, but everything else on that drive.

Since I installed ESO I played ESO everyday, I did not installed or downloaded anything else. Only thing I did is startup my computer, click the launcher that's it.

So how would this be a user issue. If I didn't do anything. I scanned my drives, no viruses etc. Again im not a tech geek. But I didn't do anything weird with my pc and didn't go to any weird sites and I never click site popups or weird links etc.

I am an average PC user.

Reason I am on this forum is cause I did what any normal person does when something isn't right computer wise, you look for answers on the internet and cause I did that, I found this forum to find out I am not the only one.

So again, its frustrating not to be taken serious. I am not a mean spirited person, but this is one occasion I wish this would happen to anyone who thinks this is BS and finds it in itself to 'troll' or give comments about something they don't know anything about cause they did not experienced it.

So although I don't wish it upon anyone, again, atm im so pissed off, I do wish it on those who thinks this is nonsense, to find it out themselves.

Last comment I make. Cause as I pasted it above, I already contacted Zenimax, and for me now, it became a waiting game. It might be solved or not, future will tell.

Have fun playing ESO.

patrikblb16_ESO

Jmundi wrote: »

Noswell wrote: »

So I did google it, and came across this thread:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/69062/warning-elder-scrolls-deletes-all-programs-bug
Were you uninstalling the game perhaps?

Is everyone overlooking the "small" problem of the game deleting everything in its "folder" when it's being uninstalled? Also why are people trying to put the blame on the user who unknowingly installed the game in the general drive directory instead of the developers who didn't think it wise enough for the game to create its own directory even if the user has failed to specify one? Blizzard are doing this since their Diablo days exactly for those reasons.

And lastly what sort of uninstaller would go ahead and delete everything in the directory indiscriminately? I mean how lazy is this?

If the OP's problem occurred during uninstall (it didn't become clear to me from his post) and he had unwillingly installed the game in the main D folder for instance then it's no surprise all his stuff is gone, but the problem is it never should have been allowed to happen, it's the developers responsibility to safeguard their software against problems like this.

If this is true it's first time I've seen such lousy security in any given MMO, many things in-game seems to been added with the same lazy aproach wich is why we have TONS of bugs wich prevents us from finishing zones and what not.

athena_o2

This happened to me too 2 days ago. ESO is such a pig it filled up my C:// and wouldn't patch any more. 250GB drive with ESO and the OS on it and nothing else. I installed it to my second hard drive (D ) , and it wrote over EVERYTHING. And I do mean, EVERYTHING. After I selected my secondary drive as the install path, and hit install, I noticed my free space on that drive went from 1TB to 1.81 TB...weird. I let it run overnight, come back to try to access my photos the next day, and everything. is. gone.


It's not a virus, the files weren't just moved, trust me it's all gone. I've done multiple drive recoveries and used several forensics tools and it's all been written over. What really sucks is, then my hard drive synced with my cloud drive backups, and wrote over everything with empty files.

All my college photos, totally gone.

All my photos from my time in the military, gone.

All the photos of my girlfriend, gone.

All photos of my brother's wedding, gone.

My professional resumes and evaluations, gone.

All my personal writing, gone.

I had assumed that it would make a Zenimax folder in the D drive and install into that, but it just wiped over everything.

I got it. Shame on me for not creating an external drive backup. I got it. The disbelief and trolling on here kinda sucks for those of us who are experiencing this.

Zenimax, you know about this bug error. You've known about it for months. Yet people keep posting about having this issue. Fix it.

Edit: This was off the retail CE discs