Hard Drive Corruption reasons?

[imported_UncivilizedAMD]

So I just got a new hard drive and partioned it into 2 partitions. I get corruption of one partition constantly. It happens to both partitions. However it doesn't hapen if I don't partition the drive and leave it as one whole partition. Anybody know what might be causing this? Is there anyway I can bypass chkdsk and still be able to access the partition?

Power supply is a generic 400 watts, but then again its only powering an amd 1ghz with one dvd-rw, and 2 hard drives, one cpu fan.

Its sharing the same cable with the primary drive and the primary drive doesn't experience corruption at all so can't be the ide cable.

thanks !!

 

[EuR Fr3nCh T3rRoR]

Maybe there is a bad sector somewhere on that hard drive and only writes data onto that sector when you have two partitions on that disk. I bet if you only had one partition, but filled up your hard drive, then you will still run into problems. This just seems like the logical defect to me, but I could be wrong...

 

[imported_UncivilizedAMD]

Filled up the hard drive before on one complete partition and it was fine. brand new hard drive too, can't imagine a sector going bad. But anyways did a hard drive check already and all sectors were ok.

 

[BadThad]

Did you set the jumpers for the primary IDE drives to master/slave? I've seen some odd behavior when the drives are jumpered as "cable select".

 

[imported_UncivilizedAMD]

Hmmm, I have the primary one on cable select and it gets the master end of the ide cable and the slave set as slave. Never heard of anything wrong with a cable select config before.

Anyways I ran through a chkdsk and somehow 50gb of data disappeared and I have a clean partition. First time I seen that too, usually chkdsk would just scramble up the fata in the files.

 

[BadThad]

Dood, change the master drive jumper to MASTER. When you use cable select, both drives are supposed to be set to CS.

I don't know what you used to "diagnose" the drives (sounds like chkdsk), but after you properly jumper the master drive, I'd run the mfg diag program on that drive.

 

[mzkhadir]

could be your motherboard controller

 

[Laputa]

Your drive may have a firmware issue and that could be either on the board or on the platter.

 

[Laputa]

A firmware rewrite will cost 1K+ so just buy another drive if you want two partitions. Unless you can justify the cost just for the heck of it.