Mine has. I'm not sure if it's the 8K7A's fault, but I hope to find out soon. On a completely fresh install of Win2k Pro (except for Nvidia 12.60's) I ran HDtach and Sandra 2001 (both previously installed) to benchmark my hard drive before installing any patches; e.g., VIA 4in1's, AMD miniports, Win2k SP2, etc. to see how much they either improved or decreased performance. Right after closing Sandra I got a nasty BSOD:
STOP: C000021a {fatal system error} The Windows logon process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xC0000005
Has anyone seen this error? I did a google and dogpile search, but couldn't find anything very relevant... Anyhow, afterward I couldn't start up my system ("inaccessible boot device", and I discovered that all 5 partitions were gone. Here's what I tried:
PowerQuest Lost & Found v1.06 - I let the recovery process run for a couple hours, but it hadn't found anything, so I canceled it.
PowerQuest Partition Magic Pro v6 (desktop & boot disk version) - it said all 60GB was "unallocated."
Norton Disk Doctor v2000 - asked if I was having trouble accessing the drive (duh); told it to search for partitions (hours later, it found none).
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro v5.10 - had to tell it the HDD's partition sizes; it found a couple GB, but everything except a handful of internet shortcuts was corrupted.
I had a backup of almost everything, except I've lost e-mail, downloaded files, reorganization, etc. that I've done in the last two weeks. As Murphy's Law would have it, I was just about to make another backup...
Another thing... My BIOS password was gone after the partitions were wiped. Before I get a chorus of "virus!," I scanned my drive thoroughly, then completely FDISK'd/formatted the partition before installing Win2k in it. Since the only card in my PC was the Visiontek GF3 during/after Win2k install, no one could've hacked in, etc. Also, my PC is connected to a hefty UPS, so a power surge wouldn't have affected me.
I read a thread where someone mentioned data loss due to a ATA100 "problem" on the 8K7A. Does anyone have a link describing this? Could this have wiped out everything?
STOP: C000021a {fatal system error} The Windows logon process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xC0000005
Has anyone seen this error? I did a google and dogpile search, but couldn't find anything very relevant... Anyhow, afterward I couldn't start up my system ("inaccessible boot device", and I discovered that all 5 partitions were gone. Here's what I tried:
PowerQuest Lost & Found v1.06 - I let the recovery process run for a couple hours, but it hadn't found anything, so I canceled it.
PowerQuest Partition Magic Pro v6 (desktop & boot disk version) - it said all 60GB was "unallocated."
Norton Disk Doctor v2000 - asked if I was having trouble accessing the drive (duh); told it to search for partitions (hours later, it found none).
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro v5.10 - had to tell it the HDD's partition sizes; it found a couple GB, but everything except a handful of internet shortcuts was corrupted.
I had a backup of almost everything, except I've lost e-mail, downloaded files, reorganization, etc. that I've done in the last two weeks. As Murphy's Law would have it, I was just about to make another backup...
Another thing... My BIOS password was gone after the partitions were wiped. Before I get a chorus of "virus!," I scanned my drive thoroughly, then completely FDISK'd/formatted the partition before installing Win2k in it. Since the only card in my PC was the Visiontek GF3 during/after Win2k install, no one could've hacked in, etc. Also, my PC is connected to a hefty UPS, so a power surge wouldn't have affected me.
I read a thread where someone mentioned data loss due to a ATA100 "problem" on the 8K7A. Does anyone have a link describing this? Could this have wiped out everything?