I've had this happen on three systems, the first a Seagate 2.1 GB drive in a Celeron 266 on a Tyan Tsunami 1846 BX motherboard (Slot only version), again later when the CPU was upgraded to a Pentium II 400. The second was on a customer's system that I don't remember the specs on, but it had a Quantum Bigfoot hard drive, and currently in a Giga-Byte GA-5SMM (Yes, it was built a Compaq 5304, but I flashed it back to Giga-Byte's BIOS, which normally fixes everything.) and a Western Digital 400BB drive.
Various folders vanish, Scandisk / Disk Doctor finds lost clusters which are the files that were in said directories, and this most recent time, will not re-create the directories that were lost.
The most recent one keeps throwing the Windows\System folder. Surface scans come up with nothing, WD's diagnostic found bad sectors, marked them, and returned an error code of 000, so I can't RMA it. It throws (? I don't know what else to call it...) the folder almost once every two weeks, while the previous systems only did so rarely (The first threw it twice, once in '98 and again last year.) Every time it's running Windows 98 or 98SE with a FAT32 partiton. I can't seem to find any mention of this on Microsoft's Knowledge Base, nor does anyone else know what it could be besides a virus. The drives have all been scanned at various points by Norton and McAffee, and come up completely clean.
Any ideas?
Various folders vanish, Scandisk / Disk Doctor finds lost clusters which are the files that were in said directories, and this most recent time, will not re-create the directories that were lost.
The most recent one keeps throwing the Windows\System folder. Surface scans come up with nothing, WD's diagnostic found bad sectors, marked them, and returned an error code of 000, so I can't RMA it. It throws (? I don't know what else to call it...) the folder almost once every two weeks, while the previous systems only did so rarely (The first threw it twice, once in '98 and again last year.) Every time it's running Windows 98 or 98SE with a FAT32 partiton. I can't seem to find any mention of this on Microsoft's Knowledge Base, nor does anyone else know what it could be besides a virus. The drives have all been scanned at various points by Norton and McAffee, and come up completely clean.
Any ideas?
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