Not 100% sure about the harddrive that corrupted locations. I will try find it but won't get that opportunity for another couple of months. Was an external hard drive with its own plug in power supply with USB attached.

Got it from a mate at the local football club with movies, music & alsorts of dumb stuff on it. Was pretty much an entire library of good movies & full music albums of every band you could ask for at the time. Always thought I had a copy of that drive on a 2TB Seagate drive. That power supply failed but i pulled that apart myself & bought a SATA cable/power supply & was able to boot it myself but filing system was different. Turns out one of his mates got me a new drive then copied everything bank on there & more. Wasn't that long ago that the Tiktok video I watched remind me of hiding a small Scandisk drive but couldn't find it when I went looking a few weeks ago. Was actually pretty devastating cause I was so sure it would still be there.

Not even sure why the computer dude pulled the "external" drive apart in the first place. I sat with him & he plugged it into his computer & was able to see all the damaged/fragmentment/corrupted files in little blocks on the screen. If he could have fixed it he would have done it for me for nothing. We were basically "neighbours".

Bit of a crazy story really from start to finish though the entire 14 years. Literally thought I'd finally put all the pieces of the puzzle together but in the end it was an EPIC fail. Been smashing forums for the last two weeks reading other people's story's & only then did the 8 words come to mind.