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New HDD, has corrupted Data - AGAIN
Ok, As most of you know, I had a partition go bad on one of my drives
and I lost much of the data on it, because I did not have a current backup. I got rid of that hard drive, even after a re-format showed it to be usable and not have bad sectors. This is an old IBM brand computer from about 2001. which originally came with Windows 2000. I've upgraded this machine many times and have used it for years. I do have Win2000 dual bootable on it, but 95% of the time I boot and use Win98se. (I have this crossposted to the XP group because of the lack of activity on the Win98 group). Anyhow, after that partition got damaged, I unplugged that second hard drive (Slave drive) and just used the first drive (bootable one). The first drive is a 120gb with four partitions. The second drive was also a 120gb with three partitions. The partition that went bad, was the G: partition (first partition on second HDD). I have not had any problems with the first HDD at all. After removing that defective second HDD, I put it aside hoping to recover data from it, and I plugged a 160gb HDD into the second IDE connector and partitioned it. It did not take long for that second drive to give me error messsages showing data corruption. I did not have much on that drive, so I just copied it to space on the first HDD. I did however, suspect that was because I know that Win98 does not allow drives larger than 120gb (actually 132gb). I bought another 120gb drive, and just recently installed it. I had not yet put my original data back on it, nor my rebuilt data from G: (which I all have on en external USB drive). This new drive was partitioned into three partitions again. (G: H: I. The G: pattition was still empty. The H: partition I was using for downloading, and contained about 25 downloads, mostly just small .JPG files and a few .PDF files. The I: partition contained a copy of my Agent newsreader which I copied there, as a backup, while I was changing some of Agent's settings. Yesterday I was defragging the first drive's partitions, when I decided to defrag the H: partition, since I had moved around some of the downloaded files. DEFRAG told me this partition had errors and I needed to run Scandisk. Scandisk reported crosslinked files between the DOWNLOAD folder and the RECYCLED folder. (Note, I DO NOT use the Recycled folder, I have it set to immediately delete files. I ran NORTON DISK DOCTOR (rather than Scandisk) to fix this, and it did fix it, but then said that the RECYCLED folder existed but had no space on the HDD. I could not delete the Recycled folder. Since I had already copied all my downloads to another place (as a backup), I just reformatted that H: partition. For the heck of it, I ran DEFRAG on the I: partition (which only contained a backup of my AGENT folder. -Once again, I got a notice to run Scandisk, which showed duplicates of ALL these files in the RECYCLED folder. And said it contained crosslinked files. Since I did not need that backup of Agent anymore, I just reformatted that partition too. Why is this second HDD getting all corrupted? This is a new drive, and I also replaced the IDE cable with a new one (with 80 wires, rather than the old one that had 40 wires). I'm starting to wonder if the motherboard itself is failing (or at least the built in IDE board portion of it). I do have the drive jumpers set properly, to MASTER on the first HDD and to SLAVE on the second drive. I have run two HDDs on this computer for years with no problems. Now it seems I can not run a second SLAVE drive. Any ideas what might be causing this? |
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