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Thread ID: 65708 2006-01-27 23:54:00 Dissapearing Files - Harddrive going bad?? Agent_24 (57) Press F1
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424734 2006-01-28 06:37:00 reboot using windows cd........goto recovery console type in chkdisk /r .........and then tap enter.... (hope I got that right if not if you type in 'help' instead it'll show you a list of the commands) drcspy (146)
424735 2006-01-28 22:43:00 Well, after recovering the files, scanning with seatools and putting the drive back into its computer, at boot chkdsk ran itself and deleted what looked like thousands of entries for something (it was going too fast to read)

I told it to run chkdsk at boot next (chkdsk /r) and it did a full scan and came up clean.
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424736 2006-01-29 00:52:00 I didn't think it was very likely to be hardware ... Windows would have complained about that. Maybe it doesn't complain so much about its own mess. ;) But I did sort of assume that you had done a scandisk before looking for more serious things. :( Note to myself: "never assume they've done a scandisk." :thumbs: Graham L (2)
424737 2006-01-29 02:15:00 Well just after the power failure I had run a chkdsk from recovery console which reported some problems (correcting errors in the volume bitmap)

and also ran spinrite 6 which did freeze at 34.09% (I exited and restarted the check starting from 30% but the whole thing completed with no error)
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