FireWire drive corrupted after spontaneous reboot?

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Hey guys.. I just got a Vantec NexStar drive enclosure, and put a 200GB WD harddrive in it and started to back up VIA FireWire, but my computer locked up and I had to reboot without "Stopping" the device VIA the taskbar.. Now the entire thing is corrupted, and this has happened twice now. Why do I keep losing all my data if I don't properly dismount it? I have an external USB drive that does not have this problem.

Can anybody fill me in here?
Thanks

 

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bump for help.

 

[Bluestealth]

probably has to do with windows caching, you can disable it by going to the harddrive's properties and turning off write caching. Also choose to optimize for disk removal. Not sure what kind of proformance hit you'll take though.

 

[MWink]

I had all sorts of problems with data being corrupt on my external Firewire drive too (even when I didn't do anything wrong). I never figured it out but I switched to a USB 2.0 enclosure and it's been working pretty well ever since.

 

[Rubycon]

What firewire (1394) controller are you using?

Ti seems to be the best. VIA is probably the most common and often is the case, prone to issues like this.

 

[MWink]

I'm not sure who made mine but I don't think it was VIA. It was whatever was built in to my Dell Inspiron 8200.