I use 2 firewire external hard drives to move large amount of data (~30 GB) between my laptop and desktop on a regular basis. Almost on a weekly basis one or both of the hard drives mangages to get some kind of file corruption in individual files or the MFT. This problem is driving me nuts and I am not sure where the problem is exactly.
The 2 external cases that I am using are the following:
AMS VENUS DS-2316CBK 3.5" USB + IEEE 1394 Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657
AMS VENUS DS-2512C 5.25" USB + IEEE 1394 Silver Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145655
Within these enclosures I have used a number of different Samsung 160 GB, and Western Digital 250 GB hard drives. The corruption issue doesn't seem to be limited to a particular hard drive or the enclosure that it was mounted in.
The laptop is using a generic pcmia firewire card and the desktop has onboard firewire. The corruption issure seems to happen after connection to either machine but it is more prevalent after using the laptop.
1) Does Windows XP not work correctly with all firewire drives? I think I remember reading somewhere about issues XP had with firewire. I have all kinds of trouble getting them to safely dismount. I have tried examining them with Filemon to see if something is being left open but nothing shows up.
2) Is CHKDSK safe to run on the drives to determine which files have been corrupted? I have heard horror stories about CHKDSK hosing the drive when it tries to fix errors. Is there some sofware that is better at looking for and fixing corruption?
The 2 external cases that I am using are the following:
AMS VENUS DS-2316CBK 3.5" USB + IEEE 1394 Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657
AMS VENUS DS-2512C 5.25" USB + IEEE 1394 Silver Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145655
Within these enclosures I have used a number of different Samsung 160 GB, and Western Digital 250 GB hard drives. The corruption issue doesn't seem to be limited to a particular hard drive or the enclosure that it was mounted in.
The laptop is using a generic pcmia firewire card and the desktop has onboard firewire. The corruption issure seems to happen after connection to either machine but it is more prevalent after using the laptop.
1) Does Windows XP not work correctly with all firewire drives? I think I remember reading somewhere about issues XP had with firewire. I have all kinds of trouble getting them to safely dismount. I have tried examining them with Filemon to see if something is being left open but nothing shows up.
2) Is CHKDSK safe to run on the drives to determine which files have been corrupted? I have heard horror stories about CHKDSK hosing the drive when it tries to fix errors. Is there some sofware that is better at looking for and fixing corruption?
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