waaaaa whats going on???

[uktivo]

Something very odd is going on. ive had 5 hdd's all go down at the same time. Last week my mp3 player (that I also use as portable storage) started giving me Cyclic Redunancy errors. I took out the hdd and ran scan disk through dos and it showed lots of errors. Fair enough I thought, get a new hdd. Later that day I had to re-install w2k server on my server machine. The setup program kept blue screening. I scanned this disk and it showed up lots of perm errors. Obviously I wasn't happy but no great deal as I still had the workstation machine.... I rebooted the workstation machine and fcuk me it gave me an error about files being missing. I scanned this drive and bloody hell it wouldn't even get half way through scandisk.

ok so this is why I am posting. I have put a new master hdd in the workstation, formatted and reinstalled xp. all is working, EXCEPT the 80gb storage drive, which is the slave drive in the workstation, is now showing as 'unallocated' basically it thinks it not partitioned at all!! Unfortuneately the drive was partitioned to NTFS

I have 40gb of MP3's on there which are not backed up anywhere (this was the backup!). I can't believe both drives have gone down at the same time!

HELP ME PLEASE!

[latency]

Could be a hard drive virus that demolished your drives...

As for the 80 one, try running windows disk maanger form control panel/system tools and seeing what that says about the drive...

[uktivo]

the drive is seen as unpartitioned in xp. i am at my wits end, there are some ver important files on this drive, years of work. i know i should have had more of a backup plan, but i thought 2 drive were ok. if anyone can help me rebuild the partition i would be extremely grateful

[[GPO]Solitaire]

get a copy of GetDataBack for FAT32 ( or NTFS) from www.runtime.org
the demo will tell you what files you can recover (the full software is only $50 or so it's worhtthe investment!)

But you'll need a emply drive to recover the files to!

If you can get the drives into another working PC and use GetDataBack to recover the data from the drives!

[uktivo]

i do actually have that, but its reporting no files of any significance, seems to me about 25mb of random file i never heard of

[georDIE]

Do you plug your computer directly into the wall? Sounds like you've might have had a power surge to me. I've seen loads of dead hdds, psu's and modems in the past couple of weeks with the thunder storms.

[latency]

I'm trying to remember if Ghost can copy an un-partitioned hard drive...

If it can, I'd get a copy so you have somthing to play with without loosing your data.

Then I'd try partitioning the drive. I've heard you can do this without loosing data (as long as you don't format it), but weather this actually works or not is up to your testing.

[Fireblade]

Then I'd try partitioning the drive. I've heard you can do this without loosing data...

Partition Magic (http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/) allows you t' do that ;)

But it's advisable t' do a backup first anyway, just t' be on the safe side... and that's where the original problem lies unfortunately (corrupt HDD/unrecoverable data etc) :rolleyes:

[dangerous_dom]

I have had nothing but problems with various releases of partition magic. Countless times it has kill my pc and data. I steer well clear these days and do things the old fasion way. If you use it, back everything up!

[uktivo]

thanks for you're replies. I have now zero'd the drive and reformatted it. In the end I had to just accept the loss :(

[Fireblade]

I have had nothing but problems with various releases of partition magic. Countless times it has kill my pc and data. I steer well clear these days and do things the old fasion way. If you use it, back everything up!

Hmmmnn... I've been using it since its v5.0 days, and ne'er had a problem wi' it :confused:

Like most software tho'... what works well for some folks, doesn't neceesarily work for others... even tho' there might not be that much difference in hardware config' :rolleyes:

There are alternatives to Partition Magic however - for those (unlike yourself) who can't be ar$ed doing things the old way :D