Recently i have had a problem with my secondary HDD in my PC.

I was getting pop-ups saying i had a problem and i needed to visit a certain site to fix it, yada-yada, so I ran Spybot to see if it could find anything.

I ran Spybot, which said it needed to reboot to fully remove the ad/spyware, so I did, and when i rebooted Windows could not see any files on my F: drive, and kept asking me if i wanted to format it.

This freaked me out so I got a program to scan the drive and make sure my disk was empty before i formatted it and the files are actually still there.

I used two progs to scan and cover the files over to another disc, but they rename all the file names to new names, which isnt ok for me. I want all my files back, with their original names. Im not just trying to recover specific files. There are thousands of em.

Can anyone give me any solutions or advice on this? Id really prefer not to have to spend much, if any, money on getting this fixed.

Is there some index files missing that are causing this prob?

Thanks for any help u may be able to give.