Hi everyone,
Well I seem to be having a problem with my computer. I plan on running some basic diagnostics from WD (gotta love how you need a win98 install to make the disk.) But for the time being I'm looking for opinions.
I have a hard drive that's a couple years old. I set it up as a slave and literally only put flat files. No programs, no dlls, no nothing. Just design stuff and mp3's, etc. Last night I had a couple mp3's running (though I'm prety sure they came from my linux box) and I was encoding a video to compress it and save some space, I was cleaning up the drive. When I woke up this morning the video had failed, supposedly becasue of an error in a particular frame. I tried to run the original file to see if I could run it fine from win media player. It told me it couldn't read the file (same error it gives when you don't have divx installed and the file is encoded that way...)
I didn't check any other files except for another video which gave me the same error. Assuming something happened to Windows recognizing the dll I restarted the computer. then I noticed my real problem. The hard drive is recognized by the BIOS and Windows 2000. But has no properties. It gives an error that it is corrupted when you try to access it and scandisk won't run because the thing acts as if the drive isn't there. Yet it shows up, just no access.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before. I'm pretty sure I defragged it a month or 2 ago, and like I said it's only files, so it isn't read and written to very often, only when I'm working. Thus the defreagmentation is usually not too bad. It's a 30GB WD drive. I believe 7200 RPM, but since I'm at work I'm not sure the model number.
Usually, unless it's a physical error you can read things off the drive and only corrupted files are affected. I'm not used to drives dying on Win2000, the errors are phrased different. I'm used to the drive not showing up and making weird noises. Mine "sounds" fine. Anyone have any ideas, is it just something where I have to check the disk for errors (something scandisk won't let me do, hopefully WD's diagnostic or Maxtor's will give me some answers) or is the disk shot? Am I gonna be able to recover anything if I send it away. I don't have a way to back things up outside of CD-R's so I only have some of my work on those. There goes all my work in college....
Please help, or at least tell me it's a fixable thing, you just don't know how.
Well I seem to be having a problem with my computer. I plan on running some basic diagnostics from WD (gotta love how you need a win98 install to make the disk.) But for the time being I'm looking for opinions.
I have a hard drive that's a couple years old. I set it up as a slave and literally only put flat files. No programs, no dlls, no nothing. Just design stuff and mp3's, etc. Last night I had a couple mp3's running (though I'm prety sure they came from my linux box) and I was encoding a video to compress it and save some space, I was cleaning up the drive. When I woke up this morning the video had failed, supposedly becasue of an error in a particular frame. I tried to run the original file to see if I could run it fine from win media player. It told me it couldn't read the file (same error it gives when you don't have divx installed and the file is encoded that way...)
I didn't check any other files except for another video which gave me the same error. Assuming something happened to Windows recognizing the dll I restarted the computer. then I noticed my real problem. The hard drive is recognized by the BIOS and Windows 2000. But has no properties. It gives an error that it is corrupted when you try to access it and scandisk won't run because the thing acts as if the drive isn't there. Yet it shows up, just no access.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before. I'm pretty sure I defragged it a month or 2 ago, and like I said it's only files, so it isn't read and written to very often, only when I'm working. Thus the defreagmentation is usually not too bad. It's a 30GB WD drive. I believe 7200 RPM, but since I'm at work I'm not sure the model number.
Usually, unless it's a physical error you can read things off the drive and only corrupted files are affected. I'm not used to drives dying on Win2000, the errors are phrased different. I'm used to the drive not showing up and making weird noises. Mine "sounds" fine. Anyone have any ideas, is it just something where I have to check the disk for errors (something scandisk won't let me do, hopefully WD's diagnostic or Maxtor's will give me some answers) or is the disk shot? Am I gonna be able to recover anything if I send it away. I don't have a way to back things up outside of CD-R's so I only have some of my work on those. There goes all my work in college....
Please help, or at least tell me it's a fixable thing, you just don't know how.
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