chances of hard drive corruption

[realredpanda]

i have a 2500 barton and im hoping to overclock it to 200 fsb but i've read that you can corrupt your hard drive by doing so with windows xp already installed.are the chances for drive corruption high or low?also i want to try to stay at the default voltage for now and am willing to take a cut in overclocking,will that help lower the chance over corruption or does it make no difference?

nf7-s
2500 barton/TR2TT TR2 M4 hsf
pc3200 ocz 512ddr(soon to be doubled)
9800pro
200gig maxtor ata133 harddrive
sony dvd-rom
liteon 411s dvdrw
5 case fans/1 pci fan
idle cpu 40c/case 22c

 

[Harvey]

Buy a second drive, and Ghost yours before you start. In case you don't know, Norton Ghost is a program that clones your hard drive, and the copy drive is fully bootable and functional. It takes about 6 min. 45 sec. to Ghost my 80 GB Maxtor drive.

It's Windows. You KNOW, someday it will eat your drive, and you WILL need a backup to restore it.

Getting back to your original question, if you don't oveclock the bus controlling your hard drive or your IDE bus, the odds on blowing off your drive with corrupted data are pretty low. Take it in small steps. You'll get lockups or other instabilities, first, that let you know when you're approaching the limits of your setup.

 

[Jmman]

Well, it has probably happened to a lot of us overclockers. I would not say that it happens often, but you better backup your drive just in case. It will save you a big headache later.....

 

[pelikan]

While raising the FSB boot into memtest86 and run test 5. If it passes that you can go into windows without corrupting it.

 

[pspada]

I put a idential drive in an external Bytecc enclosure, and I ghost my system once a week or more. This keeps my system running all the time, because the only time you have a crash is when you don't have a backup!

 

[jagec]

as long as you lock your AGP/PCI bus, the chances of hard drive corruption are pretty low, but it does happen. Usually it's not a big deal, the system just runs chkdsk and all is well. However, you do want your super-important stuff to be backed up.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Running it at 400mhz (200mhz) fsb will still run the PCI/IDE bus at 33mhz. It's only a problem if you start doing odd speeds, like maybe 180mhz fsb. Then the pci bus speeds get all out of whack. You should be able to see what the pci and agp bus speeds are set at in the bios.

 

[Ronnie]

I have never corrupted windows overclocking my barton to 200fsb. Thats just not pushing your oc enough to corrupt windows. Don't worry about a thing.

 

[zShowtimez]

In the years Ive been OCing, Ive corrupted windows and had to run a repair on it 1 time. So its not a common thing at all, and it your careful youll never need to worry about it.

 

[hifisoftware]

I recently build a system and I decided to keep CPU at the very stable speed (almost stock, withc raised VCore) while installing windows. After that I got Prime and Memtest86. I tested CPU limits and then overclocked CPU more, but still underclocking it from my stable findings. I installed drivers and other apps. After that I overclocked it to the stable max (validated with Prime).
I think that if you install Windows properly (no error), then it is farily unlikely that it will become corrupted (non bottable). Everytime you make changes to the drivers and other apps that are critical to the Windows func. I would keep CPU speed lower and then raise it when you done.