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They should have at least asked before doing something so drastic



Yeah, we would have called first .. or made a backup before proceeding.
Re-installing OS is a last step and discussed before with owner before doing.

Data integrity and recovery can be crucial.
If wiggling the connection seems to have fixed it I would be keeping an eye on that particular piece of hardware (at both ends of the connection).

FWIW, I've had it happen recently with a SATA drive (I don't like the connections they use as standard). I reconnected the drive and BIOS found it. I backed up the data right away out of paranoia, but it seems to be fine since then.


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