Corrupted almost a terabyte of stuff!!!

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satori

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A little background:

Old-a$$ p2 or p3/450 (can't remember which)
Maxtor ATA/133 PCI card with a Maxtor 160GB and three WD 200GB HD's (The Maxtor is the bootup)
Promise ATA/100 PCI card with a WD 200GB HD

Well, the system always took a long time to reboot, and I figured it had something to do with having two different types of HD controllers on the system. So, last night I took out the Maxtor and replaced it with another Promise ATA/100 card I had lying around. Everything started fine. Bootup was a whole lot faster and I walked away. When I came back, windows was doing some sort of check (scandisk?) and the hard-drives were going crazy. I know, I know, I should've unplugged everything except for the boot disk and tested it first. But, I've always swapped around hard-drives in between systems, etc, so didn't expect any problems.

Well, I log into windows and everything seems fine. All the main directories and files seem to be there. But then I start playing some of the files and it turns out they're freaking corrupted. I do some indepth testing and some of the directories, although displaying in explorer, aren't accessible. Ran CRC checks on the stuff I had data for, and some of the files were bad.

So, what exactly did I do to my system? Even some of the files that were originally on the Promise ATA/100 are messed up now. Any ideas?

One guess I've got is that the Maxtor and Promise cards handled the data above 128/137 GB differently. So, stuff residing above that was messed up. A small sampling of the files seemed to show that the older stuff seemed to be okay. A really small sample set, though.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated. It's gonna be a pain-in-the-a$$ to replace the missing files.

And no, it ain't pr0n... it's all anime. :)
 
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InlineFive

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I think swapping the controller cards was a bad thing. This is a really odd problem and I don't really know what to say. I'm going to wait and see what the pros say. :)

-Por
 
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txxxx

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ATA133 = large hard disk support.

ATA100 doesnt mean large LBA addressing support (although some controllers do). Having said that, if the drive is formatted already, addressing shouldnt be an issue...

 
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blackinches

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blackinches thinks you should cut your losses and start downloading real porn instead of anime porn.

WOOOO WOOOO!
 
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satori

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Lesse:

1. The Promise cards are the ones that came with the WD 200's. The Mobo I've got is old, so I need the PCI cards for the big HD's. Not sure why I used the Maxtor. Didn't really think it'd make much of a difference. I didn't run into the slow-boot/reset problems until I threw in an add'l controller.

2. I ran scandisk on one of the drives this morning and nothing turned up. I believe the first time I booted up with the new configuration, scandisk was what was run and changed the files.

3. I'll double-check how secure the cards and cables are, but I'm pretty sure they were in tight. Driver's should be fairly up to date, but it's been a few months since I last checked. The tech for these cards are pretty old, and they've been running fine in both of my systems for a while.

4. It's not anime pR0N!!! Just regular anime. :)

Overall, this might be a good thing. Anime was definitely eating up too much time. I was starting to just collect stuff, and not really watch any of it. Still sucks though.

Thanks for the comments. Hopefully something will turn up.

quick update:

5. I did change it back. In fact, that's the first thing I tried. But, in that configuration, Windows won't boot, no matter how many times I try to soft-reset. After rebooting with the new configuration, scandisk definitely moved stuff around on all the drives. Not sure why it did that, but it did.
 
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Last night I almost lost ~190GB of pr0n in a similar manner. I had it on a Maxtor external 250GB firewire drive, and when I tried to access it from a new Win2K install, I had to install the Maxtor driver. In the process, it somehow corrputed the filesystem. I got lucky: after uninstalling the Maxtor driver, running chkdsk a few times, and rebooting a couple of times, chkdsk was finally able to complete repairs.

Pfew! Close call! (Almost lost 1/4 of my collection in one swell foop..)
 
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ponyo

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Last night I almost lost ~190GB of pr0n in a similar manner. I had it on a Maxtor external 250GB firewire drive, and when I tried to access it from a new Win2K install, I had to install the Maxtor driver. In the process, it somehow corrputed the filesystem. I got lucky: after uninstalling the Maxtor driver, running chkdsk a few times, and rebooting a couple of times, chkdsk was finally able to complete repairs.

Pfew! Close call! (Almost lost 1/4 of my collection in one swell foop..)
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That's lot of p0rn. :Q
 
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Kadarin

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Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Last night I almost lost ~190GB of pr0n in a similar manner. I had it on a Maxtor external 250GB firewire drive, and when I tried to access it from a new Win2K install, I had to install the Maxtor driver. In the process, it somehow corrputed the filesystem. I got lucky: after uninstalling the Maxtor driver, running chkdsk a few times, and rebooting a couple of times, chkdsk was finally able to complete repairs.

Pfew! Close call! (Almost lost 1/4 of my collection in one swell foop..)
Click to expand...

That's lot of p0rn. :Q
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I have about 700GB total. Not quite sure if and how to back it all up.
 
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blackinches

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Last night I almost lost ~190GB of pr0n in a similar manner. I had it on a Maxtor external 250GB firewire drive, and when I tried to access it from a new Win2K install, I had to install the Maxtor driver. In the process, it somehow corrputed the filesystem. I got lucky: after uninstalling the Maxtor driver, running chkdsk a few times, and rebooting a couple of times, chkdsk was finally able to complete repairs.

Pfew! Close call! (Almost lost 1/4 of my collection in one swell foop..)
Click to expand...

That's lot of p0rn. :Q
Click to expand...

I have about 700GB total. Not quite sure if and how to back it all up.
Click to expand...

blackinches thinks that you should share that stuff with all of us. also blackinches thinks that you should buy a dvd burner, and that you should always lubricate and take care of your arm.

WOOO WOOO!
 
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suklee

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Last night I almost lost ~190GB of pr0n in a similar manner. I had it on a Maxtor external 250GB firewire drive, and when I tried to access it from a new Win2K install, I had to install the Maxtor driver. In the process, it somehow corrputed the filesystem. I got lucky: after uninstalling the Maxtor driver, running chkdsk a few times, and rebooting a couple of times, chkdsk was finally able to complete repairs.

Pfew! Close call! (Almost lost 1/4 of my collection in one swell foop..)
Click to expand...

That's lot of p0rn. :Q
Click to expand...

I have about 700GB total. Not quite sure if and how to back it all up.
Click to expand...

:Q:Q

Send some my way, I'll back it up for ya :D
 
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icywindow

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There's ways of getting back the corrupted stuff. If you can find a hd laying around, find EasyRecovery Professional and install it to there. There's also another proggie called Spinrite which takes a ton of time to do awesome stuff on it (like 20 hrs every 100 gigs) but it doesn't mess with data structure like Scandisk does. Not all is lost, but it will take some time to recover.

BTW, most data errors are caused by bad RAM, so you might want to get MemTest86 and see if that wasn't your issue.

As a fellow anime fan, I can feel the pain of the loss of that much. And then I go watch Naruto.

I didn't run into the slow-boot/reset problems until I threw in an add'l controller.
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Funny you should mention that. I came across 7 or 10 of those Maxtor cards a while ago. Just for kicks I set a PC up with all the PCI slots full... needless to say it took a P4 2.8c 10 min to start up. I think it has something to do with the IRQs.
 
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