cypher_soundz Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Ok so my hard drive is a 160 GB , partitioned in to : 40GB109GB (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 Regardscyph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 this shouldnt matter, but i bet its not a seagate hard drive. I have problems not like your describing with nearly every maxtor hdd, and a few western digitals.hows the disc partitioned? what filesystem ntfs / fat32 / ???what did you use to partition the data? partition magic?is this a IDE, SATA, or SCSI hard drive?if so are the drivers correct?Try replacing the cable?are the jumper thingies on the hard drive correct? Were these partitions created from a 'blank slate' or did you upgrade/convert existing partitions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypher_soundz Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 Thanks for the reply Sorry, The drive is a Western DigitalThe drive is NTFS Running Windows XPI used partition magic to create (i think this may be a bad move now)It's a IDE interface, and everything seems to be ok.The master / slave pins are all correct. if so are the drivers correct?I'm not sure what this question means Try replacing the cable?This is a good idea, i wasn't thinking in this area at all. (could it also maybe be a bent pin etc?)The partitions where created from deleting the old ones via partition magic and creating (no format ) new ones. Was there a easy solution to the problems with the dirves you had?Regardscyph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oofki Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Try running the manufactors diagnostic tools on the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 The bent pin is something to look at--- what might happen in that case is the serial # reported for the hard drive would be off by a digit or two. If you happen to have it handy, you could quickly run Belarrc Advisor..... Alternatively, your Mfg's online registration / diagnostic would hiccup due to unrecognized / unknown serial #. I wouldn't hesitate to use them if i were you-- even if you've not registered it, most have a long warranty: 4 years? & will RMA it(copy everything off, you'll likelyget a blank replacement).This is not likely, but if by chance you see any other issue, such as corrupted downloads and/or zipped archives, then i'd look at the ram as a culprit...One thing i harp on continuously, is hard disk temps: most of us monitor case, cpu, gpu temps: extra fancy heat sinks / blowers go on those-- but few of us even notice the usually empty & covered up front fan slots that could be blowing nicely on the dis©ks.......Good Luck...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypher_soundz Posted February 13, 2005 Author Share Posted February 13, 2005 Thnks for the replys , im in the middle of trying some of these + some from a very long irc chat with a friend lol. i will keep you postedRegardscyph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsecharles Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Good luck== and don't discount your ram as a culprit, nor processor bios settings, even though partitioning seems the obvious culprit...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsden Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Use the "/R" switch instead of the /F switch with CHKDSK. /R implies fixing errors as well as recovery. The /F switch does not recover corrupt data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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