So this afternoon I powered down my arcade PC so I could install some new buttons in my X-arcade Tankstick. Normal power down, no big deal.
I got my buttons done, plugged the controller back in, and powered up Windows as normal. However, when I started Maximus Arcade back up, it gave me a message that it couldn't find roms for any of the systems. I closes MA down and went into the MA preferences menu. Turns out, everything has gone back to default setting, as if I just installed MA for the first time. Very frustrating. Any reason this would have happened?
I have MA, and all my roms and emulators, on a 1TB external hard drive connected to my PC. Hard drive seems completely unaffected and all my files are still on it.