HD failed or virus?

[blackhawk]

I've been having some corrupt data problems lately on a slave 10gb fuj hard drive less than a year old. My NAV reported a virus in wordpad and quarantined it then just more and more corrupt files. Finally swapped it to another computer but cant even get it detected so moved it to another computer and tried slave, master etc but no detection. Booted from diskette to run format and it cant even do that but scandisk reports no problems but suggests the possibility of a virus. It does power up etc.

Any suggestions or ideas? I'll email fuj as I hope its a failure but I've never had a hard drive fail! I have a six year old seagate that still runs strong!

 

[bigjon]

Not sure about the virus, but I had a ton of corrupt FAT problems myself (had to reinstall Windows every few weeks). I bought a UPS (our power sucks here) and haven't had a problem for several months (rarely any scandisk trouble). It seems like Win98se has some serious problems when it comes to dirty power.

Anyone else ever heard of or had this problem? Don't know if this is your problem or not, but maybe it's worth a thought anyway

 

[utopia]

9x seems to be having some HD problems because of the old FAT file system, but it might be your fujitsy drive...

 

[cparker]

all sorts of possibilities. I remember that some drives that are setup with ez-drive will trigger virus detection. Or there might be a virus on the drive after all. Or you might have damaged the drive one way or another, possibly due, in part, to the virus. Whatever the situation, you probably should go to the drive manufacturers website and get their diagnostic software and run the low level diagnostics. Then do a low level format, possible running their "repair" utitlity. Finally, use fdisk or partition magic and make one or more partitions, format it and install an OS from scratch (unless you are fortunate enough to have a clean disk image somewhere of your previous setup.) If you still have problems, then you probably got a bad disk. Can a virus trash a disk? Well, yes. It happened to me on a Maxtor a while back. It's possible that the virus cleaning software did it too, I'm not sure which, but the disk was bad and, since it was under warranty, I got it replaced.

 

[blackhawk]

Got the test software from fuj but it cant even read the disk, just says check cables, cords and jumpers with possibility of a virus.

I'll call the toll free on monday. This is my first failure, not counting the two IBM's that never worked properly and were replaced with the quantum. I have another fuj coming this week but was putting this one in a box I'm trying to sell.
Thanks for the info.

 

[cparker]

sounds like a defective drive. I hope you are getting a replacement from fuji and will send back the bad one as an exchange under warranty. When you get the new one I'd recommend using it with a fresh Operating System just to be sure you are virus free. Good luck!