[daveais]

Well the good news is that I dd retrieve the files using Recuva. Not convinced its a memory hack issue. I deleted a folder structure that was in place leading up to losing these files as well. I moved the files into the root directory. I think this had something to do with it as well as there was a desktop.ini file that deleted as well when this happened.

Not ruling out the memory hack theory, but not convinced just yet.