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Ok this is going to be a little long but I have serious issues with my hard
drives.
Currently I'm deployed to Iraq and can't work on my computer but I need to
know if anyone has had this problem and what the fix is. Here's my story:
Last year I was deployed to Qatar and had my wife send me 2 WD Caviar 160GB
internal HD's. I put them into a Dell desktop and they ran fine for a while.
I used them to store Divx movies and music. All of a sudden one day one of
the drives showed up as being an unformatted drive. Needless to say I lost
everything on there. I reformatted it and put all the data back. Luckily it
was all on a server. Well next thing I know the Dvix movies were all
corrupted. After I deleted the corrupted files and put clean one's back on I
got the unformatted problem again. For a while the drives ran fine. I got
back home from Qatar and installed the drives in my computer. Everything
running fine for about two weeks when all of a sudden a large portion of my
Dvix movies just up and disappeared. Ran scandisk and next thing I know the
unformatted problem again. All is lost. Well I took the drives back because
my wife in her infinate wisdom got the service plan. I got Seagate drives
this time. They been running great for a while until one day an unformatted
problem again on one of the drives and movies are starting to get corrupted
on the other one. With 2 different drive manufacturers and two different
computers it kinda narrows it down to WinXP. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Joe
drives.
Currently I'm deployed to Iraq and can't work on my computer but I need to
know if anyone has had this problem and what the fix is. Here's my story:
Last year I was deployed to Qatar and had my wife send me 2 WD Caviar 160GB
internal HD's. I put them into a Dell desktop and they ran fine for a while.
I used them to store Divx movies and music. All of a sudden one day one of
the drives showed up as being an unformatted drive. Needless to say I lost
everything on there. I reformatted it and put all the data back. Luckily it
was all on a server. Well next thing I know the Dvix movies were all
corrupted. After I deleted the corrupted files and put clean one's back on I
got the unformatted problem again. For a while the drives ran fine. I got
back home from Qatar and installed the drives in my computer. Everything
running fine for about two weeks when all of a sudden a large portion of my
Dvix movies just up and disappeared. Ran scandisk and next thing I know the
unformatted problem again. All is lost. Well I took the drives back because
my wife in her infinate wisdom got the service plan. I got Seagate drives
this time. They been running great for a while until one day an unformatted
problem again on one of the drives and movies are starting to get corrupted
on the other one. With 2 different drive manufacturers and two different
computers it kinda narrows it down to WinXP. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Joe