gah!!! what is it with me and dead drives!?!?!

[Homerboy]

First Story

New Story:

Just got a "directory is corrupt" msg from my server when trying to move a dir of .avi files
"Oh crap" is all I thought.
Reboot and the D: drive is "not partitioned"
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP is what I though again.
started up the old data recovery and at least its finding all the files, but without any names (ie: FILE01.avi, FILE02.avi etc etc)

Looks like I have a weekend of renaming to look forward to (that is IF these files come off in tact and not corrupt)

Why me god WHY?!?!!?
I gotta find some money for a RAID5 card fast.

 

[neonerd]

ouch

 

[Kipper]

Were you using deathstars?

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Were you using deathstars?

This time it was a Maxtor.
Previously (linked) time it was an old IBM (but not a noted Deathstar)

 

[goblue420]

get some WDs, never had much problem with them

 

[Riverhound777]

Is it possible that the operating system could make a drive go bad? I had a version of win2k pro that caused 5 diff hard drives to go bad. Now that i switched to XP i've had no probs. guess it could be that they were just deathstars. but i dunno.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: goblue420
get some WDs, never had much problem with them

I have some of those... hell I have a HD from jsut about everyone I think.
Ive never had ANY HD issues up until these past 2.

Ugh

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: goblue420
get some WDs, never had much problem with them

I have some of those... hell I have a HD from jsut about everyone I think.
Ive never had ANY HD issues up until these past 2.

Ugh

Seagate all the way, baby.

 

[GigaCluster]

Get and use SpinRite. Amazing software.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: GigaCluster
Get and use SpinRite. Amazing software.

I have data recovery software and it IS getting the files just without names... only 4996 files total

 

[Freejack2]

How hot is it in your case? Heat WILL make drives fail. I've been replacing hard drives for work because dell can't design a decent slimline case.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
How hot is it in your case? Heat WILL make drives fail. I've been replacing hard drives for work because dell can't design a decent slimline case.

Me? Not hot at all.
This is my server in the basement. Checking the CPU temp it never gets over 39C under 100% load 24x7.
This is just a bad HD... the IBM one, the head crapped out (mechanical failure)

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Originally posted by: goblue420
get some WDs, never had much problem with them

I'm getting this problem right now with my 3 WDs but I suspect some other force. Not heat.

 

[slycat]

same mobo setup?...maybe something that system is shorting the hdds.
like psu, ide cable, controller...etc. try setting up a whole new system.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

i recently did a format and one of my partitions was dedicated soley for mp3's. Well after XP finished loading everything was ok until I tried to start playing my mp3's. I kept getting corrupted file/directory everytime I tried to load an mp3 and slowly but surely my entire mp3 folder became corrupt. However, after a reboot, xp did a disk check and did something w/ recovering "orphan" files or some crap like that...thankfully all my mp3's were recovered.

Yeah this has nothing to do w/ your situation...but just thought I'd share.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: slycat
same mobo setup?...maybe something that system is shorting the hdds.
like psu, ide cable, controller...etc. try setting up a whole new system.

exactly what I was gonna say