Hard drives being corrupted?

[godfire]

Hey guys,

I just bought a new system, and so I connected my old hard drives to transfer the files to my new hard drive. This worked fine. Then I had to re-install windows and something weird happened, the upshot being that I had to transfer them again. That was fine with me, just an extra couple of hours. However, when I tried to transfer again, it said that the hard drive had problems, or something...and then when I went to go look at the contents of that drive (previously hundreds of simpsons/family guy mpegs), it was just a couple files/folders with weird characters. Then I tried transferring from my other drive, and a few of the folders (although, thank god, not all) had the same sort of thing. Am I missing something here? Am I doing something so remarkably wrong that it's messing up these drives? Or am I just so unlucky that these 3 year old drives decided to start giving up at the same time?

 

[amdskip]

We need more system details and how you are hooking these drives up, etc.

 

[Unforgiven]

did you try selecting show hidden files to see if the hundreds of files somehow got hidden by accident? i had this happen to an mp3 drive i had and it ended up hiding all the files and deleting my porn and mp3s by giving them jacked up names

 

[godfire]

New system:

Abit IS7
2 x 200gb WD IDE drives
DVD-ROM drive
Lite On CDRW drive
P4 2.6 800
Antec True430
Geforce 4 4200 128

The drives I'm trying to get files from are 75 gig IBM drives.

When I start windows with the REALLY messed up drive plugged in, windows starts scrolling lines like "Bad link in cluster XXX corrected" or something. I left for a few hours and it was still going...the clusters appear to be sequential. When I came back it was at like 400k or something. Thoughts?

 

[amdskip]

Sounds like the drives went down the tubes. Do they both have the same errors? What about leaving them in your old system and hooking the two systems up using a network cable.