Hi
I suspect my hard drive is on the way out, however I thought I'd put it to
this list to see if there are any other explanations for what happened today.
System: AMD 2.4, Asus MOBO
Two removable HDD Drawers, + dvd/cd player + cd/r/rw. both my drives
are partitioned into three.
Note: the letters below are not the actual drive letters.
I usually boot with two drives inserted, I boot to "A" Drive (win2k-20
gig). Its generally pretty stable. the other "B" drive also 20 gig has
win98 as its operating system but i hardly ever boot to it, it has lots of
data and houses my email folders etc.
After removing both A & B and booting to another "C" drive in the top
drawer, I then replaced the original A & B Drives, it booted as normal into
win2k on "A".
When I went to access my email, Eudora would not start, it's installed on A
but accesses B for folders etc. when i went to explorer (powerdesk
actually) I found that only the partitions of "A" were listed. "B" was
listed but was not accessable and showed no partitions, also under
properties it showed zero bytes of data.
I tried rebooting to no avail.
Norton disk doctor found a partition that it said DOS couldn't access and
asked if i wanted to make it accessible... well of course i bloody did, I
was pulling out what little hair is left by this stage lol.
Well i went through the process 3 times, once for each partition on the
drive, and it required 2 boots each time, finally I have the 3 partitions
back again and I can access them. Thank you norton, I guess that made up
for the time it crashed a drive I was trying to ghost, because it wasn't
big enough and didn't bother to check or warn me... that's another story
though.
HOWEVER there is now an EXTRA disk listed in powerdesk. it is called
"Local Disk" has no space on it, no label and says file system unknown!!
My feeling is that the partition data was lost somehow, how I dont
know. Though I have just noticed that the middle (data) partition of both
"B" and "A" has only 350 meg of space free. Could it have filled the
partition up and crashed the partition table (or whatever its called)?
My main questions are:
* is the hard drive turning to toast?
* can I rid the drive of the extra " local disk" hard drive listed?
* What the f... happened?
Also: No I didn't remove or insert any hard drive drawer with the power on.
Although I had a power outage the other night which shut the
system down improperly, this doesn't often happen, and it did boot and
perform properly for hours before the problem arose later in the day after
switching drives out and back in.
any enlightenment would be gratefully accepted
Leigh
TIA
Leigh Jennings
Hound Heaven Web Design
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