harddrive corruption

[gmask]

Hard to say what the problem was or is or will be? What kind of hardrive is and who made and how old is it?

If it has been along time since you last formatted the drive the file structure can just go bad. It's good idea to reformat a drive that has been in heavy use every once and awhile. Personally I would consider getting a new disk just in case.

[Lukashi]

it is a very old hard drive. i think its about 4 years old, not sure got it with a 300mhz computer, it is a wdc ac2300L

[singularity2006]

*shivers* ... caviar drives.... blech. Anyhow, drive corruption comes when the magnetic platter can no longer hold its data properly... weak magnetic chharge and so forth. Data becomes corrupted that way... on top of that, the head reader can also get worn out over time and end up damaging, physically, the platter itself. The pin readers are something like 1000th of a hair high above the platter so a lot of jolting can damage older drives... newer drives compensate for that.

[heipei]

Driving around a hard disk in a car is like taking a sunbath as a vampire :P

I bet you put your case near your big fat bass boxes. And, of course, a few bumps on the street and (not only) your hard-drive can be ruined too. Anyway, i never had a problem, i drive my pc around a lot, but the hard drive isnt 4 years old. Like gmask said, consider getting a new one, hard drive prices are dropping and dropping, and once a drive is corrupted that heavy, i wouldnt dare saving anything important on it anytime again.

[Lukashi]

k thanks, ill get one in a bit, once i get the cash for it that is, anyways its doing ok now ;), god bless u disk doctor

[singularity2006]

oh yeah, in some cases, the platter is not the one that has gone bad but rather the hard disk interface. In some instances, I have been able to find another drive of the exact same type of brand and size and so forth, remove the interface card, ie. the silicon chips and junk, and re-attach it to faulty hard disk drive in question ... it is... tedious as hell cuz u got a whole damn lot of soldering to do, but it can be done depending on the drive ... some drives are next to impossible to work with because they are integrated so tightly, but in others... u can. And then plug it back in, get ur data back, trash the drive, or keep using it, whichever u prefer. It may be tedious but it's cheaper than data recovery. =D

[Lukashi]

its ok, diskdoctor saved the day :) thanks for the help thought

[singularity2006]

but yeah, now u got 6000 some data sectors that are unusable.

[gmask]

Originally posted by singularity2006
but yeah, now u got 6000 some data sectors that are unusable.

What does that add up to... about 3000 bytes or is it 12000 bytes.. in either case it's not much storage space lost.

Seriously though and everybody seems to agree.. you might not want to trust this drive for very long.

[singularity2006]

yes, agreed... it's like this one drive i had.... it "grew" a bad sector everytime the system was shut down improperly... =D

[elvis]

1 bad sector leads to thousands. back up the info you have, chuck the drive in the bin, and get yourself a new one.

4 years is a good life for a drive.

[singularity2006]

whoa, he said 4 years?! hahaha, i didn't read that part..! damn, most hard drives have a reliability period of like 2 years.... hahaha... speaking of which, mine are almost hitting that. ... i think.

[Lukashi]

i dont have cash for that now, maybe once it really dies i will :), gotta wear it out

[gmask]

Originally posted by Lukashi
i dont have cash for that now, maybe once it really dies i will :), gotta wear it out

Well I hope you have a CD burner and make regaulr backups of your projects as when it decides to go next time you may not beable to get to your files.


Although i will say that I have recovered files from drives on occasion that did seem hopeless. Once I was cleaning out theoffice closet and came across an old drive that had crashed 5 years prior and just for kicks I hooked it up and it actually mounted long enough for me to copy files off it.. it was kindof a time capsule ..then upon restarting it did not mount again.. so I took it part and made a paper weight of sorts out of it.

[elvis]

Originally posted by Lukashi
i dont have cash for that now, maybe once it really dies i will :), gotta wear it out

bad move man. 20-40GB drives really aren't that expensive. you're risking alot on a drive with ever-growing bad sector counts.

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.