Urgent! Please Help!

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I recently got a My Book Essential, and have been using it to store files on my MacBookPro.

My friend has the same one, and I wanted to transfer some data to it. So I plugged both of the drives into my MacBook and something horrible happened.

I noticed that his entire directory structure was now showing under my drive and all my files are gone. I dont think that any of his files actually exist on my drive though.

I have tired restarting my computer and looking at my drive again, but the same thing happens. I dont know how these drives are formatted as we both just started using them out of the box. Has his MFT been copied onto my drive or something?

What to I do??
 
Check Disk Manager and make sure that one drive didn't take over the letter for the other. You might see both devices and one with a drive letter and one without. If the disk shows up as needing to be initialized DON'T DO IT. Aside from that, you might just need to assign a drive letter to the missing disk.

MFTs don't make pilgrimages to other connected devices, so it can't be that.
 
The drive is FAT32 (which is why I could write to it on my Mac)

Drive manager shows it as a healthy 1TB partition.

BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THE DRIVE IT JUST HAS THE EMPTY DIRECTORY STRUCTURE OF MY FRIENDS DRIVE!! T - T

How could I expect this to happen?? What do I doooooooooo?
 
Boot to DOS or use a BartPE or WinPE (WinPE 2.0 preferable) boot disc and see if the same thing occurs. How about if you plug the drive into another machine. That is one odd problem that I've never seen before.
 
Well I had to plug it into a windows machine in order to use disk manager. Same thing was happening...

I think somehow the drive became a "shadow copy" of my freinds drive. I don't know how, and I don't know how to get my files back. :(
 
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