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HDD eaten away?

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Degenerate

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Right now i have two HDD, a Quantum LM 15GB, and a IBM 60GXP, 20GB. ON bothe HDD's, Counter-strike often shows that my files are incosistent or different anfter i reinstall all CS files. I even downloaded new copies everyime but often it would run fine and then a couple of days later the files would be "inconsistent". Another problem, only found in the IBM as i dont use the LM for this porpose, is photo editing, i have thousands of jpeg files (1.2mb each). I have a number of copies of each photo as somtimes i screw up editing and need an original. However, some of the photos see to be corrupt, that half of the photo's colour would be way off. I fiz this problem by gettingthe a non-corrupt version. However, after i fix all the photo's more appear. Its really like something is eating my files or something. But why dont other programs crash if my file are randomly been corrupted? Windows registery somtime stuff up too but never other applications. What is wrong?
 
Data corruption from overclocking sounds like a possiblity, but I've seen dying hard drives do some strange stuff. Have you run a surface scan?

Years ago I bought a Maxtor 6.4 gig (or some similar size) and put it on my Pentium 200. Files, particularly large ones were randomly corrupted. I was playing with an Iomega Buzz video capture card, and my captures would play, but were all distored (funky colors and blocks.) The same thing happened to images too. I think it mainly affected files over a certain size (many executable's are rather small compared to media files.) I wound up returning the drive and buying a Western Digital. I never had an answer to how or why it was happening. The system was not overclocked.

 
My system is definitly running at defult speed. Just then i had to restart Win XP 8 times to get in. its the system32 registery files that are stuffed.
 
Have you tried doing a full format on BOTH drives and then starting again? Perhaps the drives are just corrupt and need a full format.

Have you also checked for viruses with an upto date scanner?

What PSU do you have? Perhaps its on its last legs and supplying dirty power.
 
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