Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I found this browsing through somethingawful... here specifically and I thought it was interesting because a goon won a 360 last time.
19) ADVERTISING, site pimping, contests or any type of business promotion is not permitted. Soliciting for fraternal organizations, humanitarian causes or...
the same happened to me once with my external HDD when I kicked it. I had two partitions for it; I formatted one of those, and it started working. As for the data recovery... I only know of stellar data recovery.