Hi everyone:
today was a good example of "not keeping all your eggs in 1 basket". I have a 30 gig Quantum AS drive, as a storage drive, for MP3'S, and a couple of games on it, as well as a couple of Ghost files of my main ( C and D drive) partitions as well. I run SCSI drives for my Operating system and program files. Last week, I upgraded to DDR, installing the new Iwill XP333 board, and some Crucial ram. Everything was running fine. Last few days, I have been slowly replacing my huge LVD cables, and IDE cables with rounded cables, as they came in from being shipped.
Today, I fired up Quake3 on my lunch hour: partway through the first game, it froze, and hardlocked my system ( WIN XP PRO). Had to hard reboot. Rebooted, then went back to work. Tonight, I tried to start Quake, and got an error, saying invalid shortcut. I went into My 'Puter, and instead of the regular label for the K drive( MP3'S), it instead said "local drive". I clicked "properties", and it showed the disk being 100% EMPTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went into Disk Management, and reviewed all my drives. ( I run FAT32) The K drive showed as HAVING NO FILE SYSTEM!!!!!
I tried to access the disk usage chart, and it said I NEEDED TO FORMAT THE DRIVE FIRST!!!!!!!!!!! Where the flying F**K did my 900 MP#'s go??????????????
For the hell of it, I tried the following:
swapped old cables back
swapped from IDE0 to IDE1 on the board
made sure the disk was detected fine in the bios
tried to switch the drive (jumpers) to slave instead of master( slave to a CDR unit)
Same results.
For the hell of it, I booted to a c prompt, and the directory seemes to be intact ( at least had all the correct folder names).
I loaded Ghost, and did an image integrity check of an old image I had saved there- it checked out fine.
Where the hell do I go from here??? What smoked the file structure, and CAN I TRUST THIS DRIVE???? It's probably JUST a year old.
Resinboy
:disgust:
today was a good example of "not keeping all your eggs in 1 basket". I have a 30 gig Quantum AS drive, as a storage drive, for MP3'S, and a couple of games on it, as well as a couple of Ghost files of my main ( C and D drive) partitions as well. I run SCSI drives for my Operating system and program files. Last week, I upgraded to DDR, installing the new Iwill XP333 board, and some Crucial ram. Everything was running fine. Last few days, I have been slowly replacing my huge LVD cables, and IDE cables with rounded cables, as they came in from being shipped.
Today, I fired up Quake3 on my lunch hour: partway through the first game, it froze, and hardlocked my system ( WIN XP PRO). Had to hard reboot. Rebooted, then went back to work. Tonight, I tried to start Quake, and got an error, saying invalid shortcut. I went into My 'Puter, and instead of the regular label for the K drive( MP3'S), it instead said "local drive". I clicked "properties", and it showed the disk being 100% EMPTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went into Disk Management, and reviewed all my drives. ( I run FAT32) The K drive showed as HAVING NO FILE SYSTEM!!!!!
I tried to access the disk usage chart, and it said I NEEDED TO FORMAT THE DRIVE FIRST!!!!!!!!!!! Where the flying F**K did my 900 MP#'s go??????????????
For the hell of it, I tried the following:
swapped old cables back
swapped from IDE0 to IDE1 on the board
made sure the disk was detected fine in the bios
tried to switch the drive (jumpers) to slave instead of master( slave to a CDR unit)
Same results.
For the hell of it, I booted to a c prompt, and the directory seemes to be intact ( at least had all the correct folder names).
I loaded Ghost, and did an image integrity check of an old image I had saved there- it checked out fine.
Where the hell do I go from here??? What smoked the file structure, and CAN I TRUST THIS DRIVE???? It's probably JUST a year old.
Resinboy
:disgust:
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