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Bamabreeze
I have be having so issues with my slave drive.Let me give the basics of my
system...XP Home SP3. 160G sata Primary bootable drive and a 1T sata slave
drive.The comp. was bought new 8 months ago.No problem with the main system.
The problem is the slave drive,it has become corrupt to the point that it
cannot be read.This has occured several times in the past with different
comp.I have a theory how it got corrupt....It is not a virus or malware,I
know this for a fact,my system is clean.My theory involves the USB
Interface.Especially with going from USB 1 to USB 2 or vice versa.I have a
external box that I have the drive in,it is a USB 2 devise ,and as long as I
keep it attached to a comp.that has USB 2,no problems.The problems start to
occur when the external is attached to a comp. that has only USB 1. Let me
say this,file transfer does not have to take place for the drive to get
corrupt,just plugging it to a comp. with USB 1, seems to be enough to corrupt
the drive.My local computer guru tells me that this should not be a
problem,just slow file transfer.In the past I have chocked it up to maybe a
virus or some weird bug,but I know for a fact that this is not the case this
time. The corruption starts as a flakey file that takes too long to open or
wont open when it used to open fine. Now this does not effect programs,just
files(music, photos ,games or word docs.)Then the folder views start to
randomly change,sometimes file names are renamed with a dos name,then entire
folders cannot be opened,then comp. wants to do a check disk operation at
startup,then finally the drive itself cannot be read.This does not happen
over few hours, rather a few months.This last time it happened,the drive was
fine till I plugged it up to another comp.When I realized that it was a USB 1
port I unplugged it ,that was 7 weeks ago ,now as of this morning the drive
cannot be read.I almost have the 1T drive full,I really don't want to loose 3
years of work.Oh I also might add that the drive cannot be formatted by any
XP means ,or by any tools that I had ,the last time this happened I had to
send the drive off to be formatted(not cheap).Even my computer guru had a
very hard time formatting the drive.As I mentioned both drives are sata...but
it has also happened with IDE drives.Like I said before main drive still
boots normally .I know this is a bit long winded, but maybe something here
will help.This is not only limited to XP,it has also happened on
'98,me.,2000,and also vista.
Getting to my questions now...
1...Has anybody else had this problem, and could trace it back to a USB 1 to
a USB 2 connection?
2...Is this a glitch in the USB interface?
3...Is there a patch?
4...How can I get my files back?
5...Any tools that could help recover my files?
Any help or advise would be extremely helpful in solving this annoyance.
I'm very desperate to get my files back.Since I do body and paint work there
might be a free paint job it it.
THANKS.....Bamabreeze
system...XP Home SP3. 160G sata Primary bootable drive and a 1T sata slave
drive.The comp. was bought new 8 months ago.No problem with the main system.
The problem is the slave drive,it has become corrupt to the point that it
cannot be read.This has occured several times in the past with different
comp.I have a theory how it got corrupt....It is not a virus or malware,I
know this for a fact,my system is clean.My theory involves the USB
Interface.Especially with going from USB 1 to USB 2 or vice versa.I have a
external box that I have the drive in,it is a USB 2 devise ,and as long as I
keep it attached to a comp.that has USB 2,no problems.The problems start to
occur when the external is attached to a comp. that has only USB 1. Let me
say this,file transfer does not have to take place for the drive to get
corrupt,just plugging it to a comp. with USB 1, seems to be enough to corrupt
the drive.My local computer guru tells me that this should not be a
problem,just slow file transfer.In the past I have chocked it up to maybe a
virus or some weird bug,but I know for a fact that this is not the case this
time. The corruption starts as a flakey file that takes too long to open or
wont open when it used to open fine. Now this does not effect programs,just
files(music, photos ,games or word docs.)Then the folder views start to
randomly change,sometimes file names are renamed with a dos name,then entire
folders cannot be opened,then comp. wants to do a check disk operation at
startup,then finally the drive itself cannot be read.This does not happen
over few hours, rather a few months.This last time it happened,the drive was
fine till I plugged it up to another comp.When I realized that it was a USB 1
port I unplugged it ,that was 7 weeks ago ,now as of this morning the drive
cannot be read.I almost have the 1T drive full,I really don't want to loose 3
years of work.Oh I also might add that the drive cannot be formatted by any
XP means ,or by any tools that I had ,the last time this happened I had to
send the drive off to be formatted(not cheap).Even my computer guru had a
very hard time formatting the drive.As I mentioned both drives are sata...but
it has also happened with IDE drives.Like I said before main drive still
boots normally .I know this is a bit long winded, but maybe something here
will help.This is not only limited to XP,it has also happened on
'98,me.,2000,and also vista.
Getting to my questions now...
1...Has anybody else had this problem, and could trace it back to a USB 1 to
a USB 2 connection?
2...Is this a glitch in the USB interface?
3...Is there a patch?
4...How can I get my files back?
5...Any tools that could help recover my files?
Any help or advise would be extremely helpful in solving this annoyance.
I'm very desperate to get my files back.Since I do body and paint work there
might be a free paint job it it.
THANKS.....Bamabreeze