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What mucked up my hard drive?

  • 04-08-2005 10:52pm
    #1
    Lord Oz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭


    Right, here's my story: basically my second hard drive has had all it's files wrecked, the drive is littered with huge junk files with junk names. I can access the drive and everything fine, it's just my files are ruined. If I were to delete those files and continue using the drive would it be fine or is there a chance of it dieing again in the future? The drive has gotten wrecked once before but that was because I wrecked the partition installing linux, so it could just be a dodgy drive. I'm wondering if it's a virus or possibly a drive defect.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    KeRbDoG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,335 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    Easy thing to do is to find a harddrive checker, that will scan the physical drive for errors. If it passes then your harddrive is fine. It sounds like the file table (where all the file names/locations are stored) got messed up from what i can see.


  • #3
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Lord Oz wrote:
    If I were to delete those files and continue using the drive would it be fine or is there a chance of it dieing again in the future?
    Very high risk of it dying again.
    Hard drives are flaky, if its let you down twice, throw it in the bin.
    Hard drive checkers are good for marking bad sectors & the like but they can't find all faults, especially intermittent ones.


  • #4
    Wandering Dazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Wandering Dazed


    Personally, I'd run a chkdsk /f to see if there are many bad sectors and if it will recover them. Then try re-formatting the drive. Find out the make and model no. of the drive and see if the manufacturer has any diagnostic software that you can run or low level format it. A lot of system bios's have smart diags onboard which you can run.. If you get a lot of bad sectors/errors best to dump the drive and get a new one.

    ooops, chkdsk is assuming your running nt/2k/xp/2k3... fschk for linux


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