Ok this really sucks. I bought two 200gb Western Digital harddrives a while back and I formatted one to only 132gb and one to 186gb (the max). So I used the 132gb one for my D drive for downloads and game installs and stuff and my 186gb one mostly just for already backed up music (my music server).
My computer was on last night and when I came to it today the E drive was messed up and I can't access it and now everything on it is lost I think (150gb of data!). Since most of it was backed up it's not the biggest deal but it was a pain to get everything on it in the first place and organize it! Now I think this might happen to my other drive and I CAN'T have that happen. Partition Magic 8 already shows my D drive as only being 132gb now with no option to resize it... what happened to my other 50gb of unused/unformatted space that it usually shows? Is this thing about to fail too?
Both drives were using NTFS under WinXP SP1. I have a very old mb, an Abit BX6 rev 2.0 (440BX). Both of these drives are on 1 Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller (one drive per ide).
So my question is: Is it ok to use 1 partition per drive and use the max amount of space, 186gb, on my old mb if I use the Promise Ultra100 card? Or was this my mistake and this caused the E drive to fail after putting too much data on it? I thought it was only a problem when not using the Promise controller and putting the drives on the mb's ides?
How about if I buy a new system with an ABIT IC7 Canterwood i875 motherboard? Then could I plug both drives directly into the mb's ides and use the max space safely? I really need to know, I can't lose some of my data and I can't back it all up every single night.
Also, is there anyway to recover my E drive's data? It's unplugged right now. When trying to access it through My Computer it would hang the whole My Computer window and slow down my system. When using Partition MAgic 8 it would show up as being full (186gb used when only 150gb was really used) and the lable was screwy (it now had a label called ?0?). I am afraid to mess with this drive now and want to try to save the data.
Any help is appreciated.
My computer was on last night and when I came to it today the E drive was messed up and I can't access it and now everything on it is lost I think (150gb of data!). Since most of it was backed up it's not the biggest deal but it was a pain to get everything on it in the first place and organize it! Now I think this might happen to my other drive and I CAN'T have that happen. Partition Magic 8 already shows my D drive as only being 132gb now with no option to resize it... what happened to my other 50gb of unused/unformatted space that it usually shows? Is this thing about to fail too?
Both drives were using NTFS under WinXP SP1. I have a very old mb, an Abit BX6 rev 2.0 (440BX). Both of these drives are on 1 Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller (one drive per ide).
So my question is: Is it ok to use 1 partition per drive and use the max amount of space, 186gb, on my old mb if I use the Promise Ultra100 card? Or was this my mistake and this caused the E drive to fail after putting too much data on it? I thought it was only a problem when not using the Promise controller and putting the drives on the mb's ides?
How about if I buy a new system with an ABIT IC7 Canterwood i875 motherboard? Then could I plug both drives directly into the mb's ides and use the max space safely? I really need to know, I can't lose some of my data and I can't back it all up every single night.
Also, is there anyway to recover my E drive's data? It's unplugged right now. When trying to access it through My Computer it would hang the whole My Computer window and slow down my system. When using Partition MAgic 8 it would show up as being full (186gb used when only 150gb was really used) and the lable was screwy (it now had a label called ?0?). I am afraid to mess with this drive now and want to try to save the data.
Any help is appreciated.