HD problem (files corrupted and/or inaccessable)

[sglurker]

WesternDigital160gig, not partitioned, windowsXP

This is a slave drive that I use for storage basically. A few days ago, a few of the folders in the drive studdenly couldnt be accessed, it just says 'cant access' or something similar. So i reboot and run chkdsk, and I lost about 30gigs of data. After that incident, whenever I move a file from one folder to another, the file becomes corrupt, and cannot be accessed. ANY file I move will result in this happening. Only way i can remove the corrupt file is through command prompt.

So I run the WD extended test software, and it said that my drive is running perfectly fine. Ok so I run Norton Disk Doctor, and same thing, the HD is supposedly running fine. But if its fine, how come i keep on losing data? I thought maybe windows screwed something up, so I reformatted my Main drive, and this is still happening.

Anybody have any idea whats going on? Is it the harddrives fault, or maybe the NTFS got messed up or something? I still have 80gigs of data on it so I guess reformating THAT drive is going to be my last resort. Thanks in advance.

 

[Dolemite76]

file corruption is a red flag for either mechanical hard drive failure or virus activity... it's highly unlikely that it's a virus since they tend to be a little more aggressive in destroying data and they tend to affect the drive/partition that holds the system files... since the problem repeats itself after a clean install and all the diagnostic software checks out... it seems to be something mechanical that's outside of the scope of standard hard drive testing software... if you've tried everything... then it's obvious your drive is malfunctioning anyway... i recommend you check your warranty and get it replaced that way... else... you're going to have to buy a new hard drive... i suggest getting a new one as soon as possible to save what files you can...