heres my problem.. i have a 3 gig P4 with windows 2000 server.. 2 physical hard drives both on the primary ide.. a maxtor 80 GB with my OS on it and a western digital 200 GB with all my important files stored on it.. well a few days ago i started getting errors that said my files r unreadable and corrupt.. this continued happening till i got so many i had to restart the computer.. after starting back up i went to that drive in explorer and i noticed the volume label was now gone.. and when i clicked on it i got this error g:\ is not accessible the parameter is incorrect.. i tried chkdsk and it did not work.. i noticed that it says there is no file system anymore.. i took the drive out and put it in my other computer and it asked me if i wanted to format it.. so i put it back in the old computer and it still didnt work so then i tried about 6 different data recovery programs and recovered about 20 files out of hundreds of thousands.. i have another WD 200 GB with an exact copy of everything that was on that drive i keep as a backup.. i hooked that one up to the secondary ide and started burning all of it onto dvds.. when i almost had everything copied.. my windows explorer froze up for some reason and i had to restart.. when i went to the backup drive in explorer i noticed that one also had no volume label anymore.. when i clicked on it i got the same error.. i tried to recover that drive but i got nothing at all this time.. thank god i copied most all of my files to dvd.. i thaught i could never lose my files since i have so much backup but this is insane... i think it has something to do with the master file table.. but the biggest problem now is that i dont know whats causing this.. is it my OS or is it bad hard drives?? once this happens do i still use the hard drives?? ive done quite a few virus scans with 2 antivirus programs.. norton and bit defender and everything came up clean.. i also ran a few hard drive tests and they all said my drives were working ok... what is the deal? can somebody please help me ive tried everything and searched everywhere online.. i dont know what to do anymore!!
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both drives went bad on separate ide cables.. and after reformatting one of them i got it working fine and put it in my other computer and it crashed again.. so unless every ide cable i have is bad that cant be it.. plus thers other drives on those cables anyways
About the only thing I can think of that would affect different drives, on different cables, is intermittant power when writing to the drives. Can you try a new power supply? It could work OK reading CD's and floppies, but have spikes that affect the packet writing to the hard drives. Could the spikes have physically damaged the hard drives? Download the diagnostic software from the drive manufacturer and check the drives for damage.
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well its possible.. but 1.. the files that got corrupt were already on the drive and were there for a long time and worked fine till this day.. 2.. the drive was working fine after i reformatted it and i put it in my other computer and it didnt work.. i reformatted it in that computer and even repartitioned it and im leaving it in there to see if it happens again.. if so then im sure its the drive.. 3.. my system drive is on the same power supply and thers no problems
Review the following Microsoft article concerning Windows 2000 support of drivers larger than 137GB and ensure 48-bit LBA support is enabled correctly on your system.
Running some memory tests may reveal something. Both of these memory testers will create bootable diskettes or CDs that automatically start their respective memory tests upon boot:
Running some memory tests may reveal something. Both of these memory testers will create bootable diskettes or CDs that automatically start their respective memory tests upon boot:
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yeah i already read that and fixed taht problem when i first got the drive.. my system sees all 200 just fine.. and i also have memtest86 too i used that to find out i had a bad stick of memory.. braught it back and got another bad one.. kinda rediculous.. but the third stick he gave me was samsung and it tested perfect.. so last time i checked my memory was prefect
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yeah i know.. i ran the test on about 12 different computers though.. my bad sticks gave me tons of errors.. and every other computer i tried the test on gave me 0 errors.. so now that this third stick is giving me 0 errors i think comparing it with the other 12 computers i tested ide say its good.. besides the first 2 sticks of memory were jsut generic sticks.. so doesnt surprise me
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