Ok so my hard drive is a 160 GB , partitioned in to : 40GB 109GB (the bigger the drive the bigger the overhead ) Now my drive keeps getting corruption all over it, I will save a file and then a few days later it wont be able to be read, I will capture a TV show, a few days later the 30mins show will only register as 3mins long it has happened many times before. I know that it is not a virus or a heat issue now. I also have been told that using partition magic may have been the cause as files are being copied to other drives etc. When i used to have it as master is would not boot now and then with a "no operation system installed" and the partition would vanish! On proforming a CHKDSK /F on the drive/partiton i would get errors like "Deleting orphan file $FILENAME.TXT " and it would do this for the whoel drive, after this it would scroll the screen with "recovering file $FILENAME.TXT" etc and scroll the screen with the whole drive. I'm have tried everything, there is no bad sectors (from a scan) but could there be any other physical errors? Both partitions seem to have these errors that’s why I thought maybe it was a "illegal" partition size or something. Please guys and girls! Any help would be very appreciated Regards cyph