well, long story short, i turned on the comp, and noticed check disk was running. usually it doesnt do anything and im up and running, but this time, it somehow deleted the directories for all of my steam stuff. not sure if i should reformat it or just reinstall the games and see if it fixes the directories. not sure what it is though. hope its not something i have to buy a new hard drive for. freakin sucks that it happened......odd thing is, everything else is still there, origin, WoT, LoL, all there. but steam is missing, though its still holding disk space as if its still there but not visible. not sure what to do about it though, but all the searches ive come across so far, suggests that ive already screwed up by reinstalling steam before doing anything else. eh, it was just steam i guess......guess now is the time to buy that 1tb ive always wanted. that and i guess i should go ahead and get a portable drive to back up my art drive in case this happens again