Re: What's causing scrambled HDDs?


Ian Roberts wrote:
> <DennisQWilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1125229201.494437.161290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have two hard drives in my system, one for programs and one for data.
> > Last month the data drive crashed -- I was working along when suddenly
> > all its files abruptly disappeared, though the folders remained intact.
> >
> >
> > I no sooner finished recovering all the data from that HDD -- just
> > today -- when the same thing happened to my other drive.
> >
> > What are some possible causes for this behavior? Power surge? Bad
> > RAM? Voodoo curse? Repeated virus scans come back clean.
>
> Could be a power supply problem.
>
> Could be the drives over heating. Do you know what your case and CPU temps
> are? If not try Motherboard monitor (MBM5) Is your system running 24/7? if
> so you may have just worn them out!
>
> What make/model are the drives?
>
> Could be a virus - is your anti virus and firewall kept up to date and do
> you run regular system scans?
>
> Hope you kept backups and didnt lose anything important.

Yes, I make regular backups, so my actual data loss was minimal. Right
now I'm more concerned with what's causing this so I can prevent it
from happening again.

How does one go about testing the power supply?

.

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