Re: Seagate Barracuda 160 GB IDE becomes corrupted. RMA?
- From: "Harkhof" <hark@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:14:16 -0600
"Dan_Musicant" <man@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:22:00 -0600, "Harkhof" <hark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:"Dan_Musicant" <man@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:18:29 -0800, "Eric Gisin"
<ericgisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
:> wrote:
:>
:> :It is NOT a hardware problem. It is NTFS corruption.
:> :You didn't enable Win 2K large (137GB) drive support in the registry,
:> :and NTFS wrote past 137G which wiped the MBR and boot sector.
:>
:> I have another HD in the box that's 200 GB and it has one logical drive
:> only, and is formatted NTFS. That's obviously not the problem. Also,
the
:> drive was working fine for 1.5 years and I made no changes. The logical
:> drives simply disappeared from it, evidently data corruption. I don't
:> know what kind of corruption it is, but it evidently is preventing the
:> drive from being properly reformatted -- see the post I made in this
:> thread 5-10 minutes ago.
:>
:> Dan
:>
:>
:> :"Dan_Musicant" <man@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
:> :news:ddk4v15j4r1slctnejaseqokt55ht4od6e@xxxxxxxxxx
:> :> Part number: ST3160023A-RK
:> :>
:> :> Bought 08/13/2004 online at outpost.com, and it still has almost 4
:> years
:> :> on the warranty. I've never lost a HD before, although I RMA'd one
that
:> :> was getting bad sectors 6 months after purchase. I've had over 10
:> HDD's.
:> :> This was working perfectly, AFAIK and suddenly a couple of days ago
:> :> Windows 2000 doesn't see the drive (Explorer). Disk Management shows
it
:> :> online but unformatted. So, I suppose the partition table became
:> :> corrupted. Is this an automatic RMA? Can it be assumed that it's a
:> :> hardware issue? Is it possible for me to retrieve the data somehow?
Or
:> :> is that an expensive and/or iffy proposition? Of the 3 HDD's in the
:> :> system, this was the most expendable in terms of the data. In that I
:> was
:> :> extremely lucky. I used it mainly for backup and temporary work.
:> :>
:> :> Thanks for any info.
:> :>
:> :> Dan
:
:Excuse me for butting in, but I'm wondering why you have to have FAT32
for
:the partition in question? NTFS is much more reliable and presents none
of
:the partition size barriers or file size limits FAT 32 does. Also, as has
:been said, PM can and does cause issues (in fact, I had 2 partitions
:disappear on me several years back that were created in PM). If you MUST
:have FAT32, your best bet (to maintain reliability) is to delete the
:partition and reformat with a 98 boot disk (w/format command added to
disk).
:
:As to why the drive corrupted in the first place, did you use PM for the
:original install?
:
:Hark
The only reason I'm using FAT32 is that I have a Win98SE boot partition
on the system, that I use occasionally. I want it to be able to see at
least one of my data partitions.
If I format with a Win98SE floppy, can I format a 40 GB partition to
FAT32?
Yes, but as the format command doesn't get written to the boot disk during
its creation, be sure to copy it from Win98 to the win98 boot disk, or that
you can access it on some FAT32 partition after booting.
I don't recall, but figure I may well have used PM to do the original
formatting of the partitions, or I may have resized them using PM.
I'd delete the partition in fdisk from the win98 boot disk (fdisk is already
on the win98 boot disk) and use fdisk to recreate the partition you want.
Also, I'd say a safer bet for resizing partitions is either BING or Acronis
Disk Director. BING is around $40, but gives you a fully functional trial
period if budget is a concern. Another valuable feature of BING is that it
can reliably slide a partition. I think Disk Director is around $50 or $60.
I like and use both (along with Acronis True Image. Where would I be without
that ?).
Hark
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