Hi all,
OK where to begin! I have a 2.8Ghz pentium 4, 1gig DDR, and 2 160Gb hard drives. the first drive was partitioned 3 times as was the 2nd. I have windows installed on the first 10gig partition C:
The problem is that I was copying things over from HDD 2 to HDD 1 and the computer shutdown. when it started up the windows partition was blank. So i reinstalled windows and did a ghost of the drive in case it happened again. which it did as soon as I tried to copy files. lucky i had my image to ghost over! all my data on the other partitions stayed intact it was only windows that dissapeared. so I figured it was a bad hard disk and bought another one. but the same night the exact same happened again! So I kept a backup of all my stuff on HDD 2 and formatted HDD 1 then repartitioned it all up again (NTFS) and installed windows again. however it keeps happening! but the last time it did it, just moments ago! It wiped all my partitions as well! now i have just windows on a 160gb hard disk and I'm unable to copy files anywhere or windows will delete. It was fully partitioned with 60 gigs of data on and a second later windows was gone, the partitions didn't even exist and all the data gone!!
I have to come to the conclusion that it isn't likely to be my hard drive as my brand new one had the exact same problem. The only other thing I can think of would be the motherboard. but I don't want to go out on buy one before I've had a second opinion!
Also it isn't a virus as I've run my antivirus past it. I've pretty much lost everything now when the partitions where deleted so I am keen to sort it out now before I lose anything I do from now on!
Any help would be greatly appriciated as this is the weirdest problem I have ever come across!!
Rob
OK where to begin! I have a 2.8Ghz pentium 4, 1gig DDR, and 2 160Gb hard drives. the first drive was partitioned 3 times as was the 2nd. I have windows installed on the first 10gig partition C:
The problem is that I was copying things over from HDD 2 to HDD 1 and the computer shutdown. when it started up the windows partition was blank. So i reinstalled windows and did a ghost of the drive in case it happened again. which it did as soon as I tried to copy files. lucky i had my image to ghost over! all my data on the other partitions stayed intact it was only windows that dissapeared. so I figured it was a bad hard disk and bought another one. but the same night the exact same happened again! So I kept a backup of all my stuff on HDD 2 and formatted HDD 1 then repartitioned it all up again (NTFS) and installed windows again. however it keeps happening! but the last time it did it, just moments ago! It wiped all my partitions as well! now i have just windows on a 160gb hard disk and I'm unable to copy files anywhere or windows will delete. It was fully partitioned with 60 gigs of data on and a second later windows was gone, the partitions didn't even exist and all the data gone!!
I have to come to the conclusion that it isn't likely to be my hard drive as my brand new one had the exact same problem. The only other thing I can think of would be the motherboard. but I don't want to go out on buy one before I've had a second opinion!
Also it isn't a virus as I've run my antivirus past it. I've pretty much lost everything now when the partitions where deleted so I am keen to sort it out now before I lose anything I do from now on!
Any help would be greatly appriciated as this is the weirdest problem I have ever come across!!
Rob
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