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| 450094 | 2006-04-27 21:16:00 | Hey People :) I turned on the machine this morning and it prompted a check disk for my 'Storage' partition, anyway the thing is while I was watching it I saw it say deleting and then a file name, I then got into windows and found it HAD deleted over half of my music!!! though I was lucky because I was able to recover it using a partition explorer. Why did it do this??? I now advise watching it carefully :badpc: Thanks :) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 450095 | 2006-04-27 23:59:00 | There's usually a good reason why ChkDsk/Scan Disk is deleting files, from most likely to least likely: * the file system is corrupted because of improper shutdown / failing drive (most likely) * bad hard drive Windows driver / problem with write caching. * bad RAM (try http://www.memtest.org) * some form of nasty has corrupted ChkDsk * bad RAID configuration / RAID hardware (least likely) Not running ChkDsk is not really an option. It's sort of like driving a car without every doing a tune-up; eventually it bites you in the bum. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 450096 | 2006-04-28 00:12:00 | The last time it was shutdown it was fine, the drive is a replacement and would only be not even 3 months old... How can RAM affect it? :illogical last time I tested the RAM it was fine (it has been the suspect of other problems, which turned out to be Windows... :badpc: ) It is only an IDE, no RAID. Yeah, I normally do it once a month (try to anyway... :D ) Just done Defraging on all drives and that has taken 3 hours :horrified |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 450097 | 2006-04-28 01:20:00 | Have you checked the event log ? | gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 450098 | 2006-04-28 02:00:00 | Bad RAM is highly unlikely to affect a check disk, but it's not impossible . Basically the NTFS table gets read into RAM during the check disk; it's concievable, but again unlikely . I guess you know about the writing caching check box: Drive . . . properties "Policy" tab "Enable write caching on the disk" gcarmich tip about the event viewer is a good idea . |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 450099 | 2006-04-28 04:56:00 | The last time it was shutdown it was fine, the drive is a replacement and would only be not even 3 months old... How can RAM affect it? :illogical last time I tested the RAM it was fine (it has been the suspect of other problems, which turned out to be Windows... :badpc: ) It is only an IDE, no RAID. Yeah, I normally do it once a month (try to anyway... :D ) Just done Defraging on all drives and that has taken 3 hours :horrified Are you clocking that baby? :D Be careful with PCI, PATA/SATA bus speeds. Some will appear to work okay, but actually could be writing corrupted data to the disk/partition.. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 450100 | 2006-04-28 05:51:00 | Are you clocking that baby? :D Be careful with PCI, PATA/SATA bus speeds. Some will appear to work okay, but actually could be writing corrupted data to the disk/partition.. It might be possible... ;) but the PCI bus, is that not what the PATA/SATA bus speeds are running at because the speed does not change according to the clockgen for nf4 which came with the mobo... | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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