Hard Drive PROBLEM

Raiden · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: Hard Drive PROBLEM

I suddenly can't access my HD and the FAT32 file system on it suddenly became a RAW File System....
and the remaining space that I had in it was gone...
and this is kinda the worst of ALL...it says my HD needs reformatting...T_T
What could have done this?!
the FAT32...changed to an NTFS

does this mean my HD is....done for?!

I also keep getting this "Cyclic Redundancy errors"...

but in the end....I end up getting to reformat it all...ALL my files...GONE...T_T
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Jsy3k · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject:

Ouch >.<''

I feel for your HDD, Raiden. BTW, how old is your harddrive? Could be that your HDD is dying if it kept on becoming RAW for nothing. Try NTFS and see how well it can hold up. If this still happens, then you may want to consider a new HDD on the budget list next month Wink

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Raiden · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

My HDD is just a year old....or less. And it's an External HDD. I bought it separately from the PC itself.

I almost got crazy when it happened this morning...140GB wos file was gone from meT_T.Now I have to start all over again from scratch...and hope that I run into those files again on the net...

also the weird thing...when it happened, my PC has gone slower.
and it makes a lot of noise.

I just wished I burned those files before I lost them....now I have to RE-download all those torrents again...

btw Jsy3k...what does RAW mean?
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Jsy3k · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:40 am Post subject:

Well, like the word means literally. It is raw, that means it is not formatted, that is all.
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Duthek · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject:

yeah, sorry feel for you too

but your only option to get it working again is to format it

NTFS would be a generally good format to use

the good thing is that 99% of all files are replaceable,

sucks to have to get them again, but it happens sometimes
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Nexweb · newbie! Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 48

Its times like these when SpinRite 6 and ERD Commander can save your data.....

Raiden · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

ahhh....It's making those weird noises again!

I guess I really have to buy a new HDD as soon as possible.
i just hope it doesn't die until I burn the files that are on it.

but this is what I noticed....
it seems that I only have this problems when accessing picture files but the videos and musics are fine.
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Duthek · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

yeah, i've been aving some hdd issues lately too

its a maxtor, and they have a 1year factory warantee, so hopefully i'll be able to get it sent in and replaced after i recover as many files from it as possible
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

-defragmentation

-change EIDE cable if it's using ribbon

-always leave 20% free of space

-have the hard drive lay flat horizontally instead of standing in a vertical position

-make sure the power supply is giving enough power to the hard drive. 400W PSU is recommended.

Calador · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: May 23, 2004 Posts: 573

Maybe and yes i said Maybe, its because you dont disconnect it before you off its power. My 1st hard drive KOed and i think its due to that. I have asked this question before and the response was that it was critcal to safely remove the hardware by right clicking it on the system tray.
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Duthek · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

well, i never got the drive full, and i don't delete anything from it, (anime archive drive), it tends not to get fragmented

ribbon is just fine

550 watt power supply

drive has always been mounted in its bracket in a horizontal position

sometimes its not always user error Wink

talked with a tech and he said it probably had a misaligned read/write pin

so Maxtor is picking up the bill on this one

apparently this is a fairly common problem, and is even more common in Western Digitals, i've never owned a Western Digital, the tech that i was talking to just said that it happens on both a fair amount.

Seagate looks to be a brand that doesn't have many issues,
***take note all of you future HDD purchasers***

Maxtor and WD would proby be fine for just extra storage, but i won't be trusting my system partition to them anymore

**edit** sorry on the double post guys, dunno what happened, i fail, will someone delete it for me pls.
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

lol, double posts. anyway, if it's in windows filesytem (fat, fat32, ntfs, etc.), your anime archive drive will be defragmented, no matter what. even if you don't care whether if it's defragmented or not, since they're just videos to you, you may think again for windows will put a file at the very end of your hard drive plate even if you have a bunch of space left, which would most likely cause the needle to make damage as it reaches towards the end of the plate. well, good thing maxtor is really nice.

Duthek · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

no i was just saying, that until you delete and move lots of files around, the data stays fairly unfragmented

i never did any moving or deleting, so its fragmentation level would be very low

The new seagate i bought has an even longer manufacturer warranty, so i'm not going to say Maxtor is nice Wink

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Raiden · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

ok...I just bought me another HDD from Seagate and this time It's laying flat on the ground not vertically anymore.

now...What am I supposed to do with my "OLD" HDD? I'm actually planning to open it up and see what's inside of it...or maybe I should do something else to it?

What are your suggestions for the 'ol HDD's fate?
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thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

to me, opening it up just for fun would be the very last thing i wanna do to a hard drive. if the hard drive's still got some chances, i could use it as a media server (though, the computer will have to be on all the time to retain its files and filesystem format). I could also use it as a cache drive so all the temporary internet stuff will go to that drive and i wont' have to defrag my system every so often. it'll be really nice if i could use it for my other computer which is on 24/7 and restarts around once a month. I could use it to do miscellaneous stuff running OSes on CD-ROM. i could also use it as a backup drive if i'm gonna try to back up stuff from the computers i'm gonna fix. it'll be a waste if the hard drive that has some chances of doing something gets to be unfunctional at all from being dismantled. store it some place just in case you could use it later or give it to someone that might have use for it. the best solution is to give the hard drive away to me Laughing

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