I have an external backup drive attached to my computer. The other day, my cat walked across my keyboard while I was out of the room, and when I came back, the message on the screen said my backup drive was finished formatting.

I opened Explorer to discover that the external backup drive was indeed empty. link

1. Click Start.

2. Right-click Computer, then click Manage. The "Computer Management" window will open.

3. In the left pane, click Disk Management (under Storage). If your disk is not initialized (as is sometimes the case with brand-new drives), you’ll be prompted to initialize it. If your disk is 2TB or more in size, select GPT; otherwise, stick with MBR.

A list of all connected disk drives is displayed in the center. Unpartitioned drives appear with solid black bars and the label "Unallocated." Partitioned drives appear with solid blue bars and a drive letter.

If your drive isn't partitioned, follow these instructions to partition it. Otherwise, skip down to the next section.

1. Right-click the black bar or the unallocated white space below it and select New Simple Volume… In this case, "Volume" is another term for "partition".

2. Click Next. To create a single, whole-drive partition, make sure the "Simple volume size in MB" value is the same as the "Maximum disk space in MB" value. Click Next.

3. Assign a drive letter of your choice. Click Next.

4. Select Format this volume. For File System, choose NTFS if you’ll be using the drive only with Windows machines. If you will be sharing the information on the drive with Macs, choose exFAT. Keep Allocation unit size at Default. Choose a name for the partition under Volume label. Do not select Perform a quick format or Enable file and folder compression. Click Next.

5. Confirm your selections and click Finish.

If your drive is already partitioned, follow these instructions.

1. Right-click the blue bar or the white space below it and select Format.

2. Choose a name for the partition under Volume label. For File System, choose NTFS if you’ll be using this drive only with Windows machines. If you will be sharing the information on this drive with Macs, choose exFAT. Keep Allocation unit size at Default. Do not select Perform a quick format or Enable file and folder compression. Click OK.

3. Confirm your choices.

True, but the cat was not too smart :
It was the MAIN hard disk to be reformatted to cover any trace, more that was supposed to be the second step,
the first and more important was to use his owner credit card to purchase online a few thousand boxes of a delicious but very, very pricey cat food

But somehow it goofed , and reformatted the wrong drive as first step

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I guess it's within the realm of possibility, but it sure seems unlikely.

If my boy (cat Socks) did this, he would not get his nightly treats for a very long time. lol

Weird situation; have no idea how this could have happened, but Scientist do say that if you give a Monkey a typewriter, there is a very minute chance that an intelligible sentence could be typed out. lolol

The odds are very slim. Let's say a monkey on a typewriter was asked to type out a twitter tweet (140 characters). If you pull the numbers off of what-if, there are 2 x 10⁴⁶ legible tweets, and 26¹⁴⁰ different 140 character strings. This means the probability of a monkey typing something legible is about 1.6 x 10^-152.

The odds are very slim. Let's say a monkey on a typewriter was asked to type out a twitter tweet (140 characters). If you pull the numbers off of what-if, there are 2 x 10⁴⁶ legible tweets, and 26¹⁴⁰ different 140 character strings. This means the probability of a monkey typing something legible is about 1.6 x 10^-152.

I would like to meet Archy.