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$mft problem anyone?
"leia176" wrote in message ... Does anyone know what's going on here? Please! Any ideas are appreciated! I had: Winxp updated to latest ABIT iT7 Max2 Ver 2. 1gb Crucial ram 2.4 gh intel Ati radeon 8500 Soundblaster audigy 2 2 ide drives 2 sata drives I started getting "$MFT" errors (master file table?) first on one of my sata drives. Occasionally other drives. The sata port went out completely. Everytime this would happen I'd reboot and windows would go through this whole scan disk type thing recovering orphaned files. At first I thought the drive was bad, and then the port was bad, but it was happening on all my drives! Since that board definitely had a bad port I went for an: bad memory is where i would start. Win XP updated to latest ASUS P4p800 deluxe used an old ati rage videocard just for installing no sound yet 2 ide drives 2 sata drives SAME THING IS HAPPENING! I even lost data on one of the sata drives I transferred over. Are all my drives going bad at once? They are all pretty new..within a year old. Could this possibly be a ram or cpu problem? |
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Chris wrote:
"leia176" wrote in message ... Does anyone know what's going on here? Please! Any ideas are appreciated! I had: Winxp updated to latest ABIT iT7 Max2 Ver 2. 1gb Crucial ram 2.4 gh intel Ati radeon 8500 Soundblaster audigy 2 2 ide drives 2 sata drives I started getting "$MFT" errors (master file table?) first on one of my sata drives. Occasionally other drives. The sata port went out completely. Everytime this would happen I'd reboot and windows would go through this whole scan disk type thing recovering orphaned files. At first I thought the drive was bad, and then the port was bad, but it was happening on all my drives! Since that board definitely had a bad port I went for an: bad memory is where i would start. Win XP updated to latest ASUS P4p800 deluxe used an old ati rage videocard just for installing no sound yet 2 ide drives 2 sata drives SAME THING IS HAPPENING! I even lost data on one of the sata drives I transferred over. Are all my drives going bad at once? They are all pretty new..within a year old. Could this possibly be a ram or cpu problem? From what you're describing I'd suspect a weak/marginal power supply. What power supply are you presently using, and what is it's rated capacity on the 12 volt rail? |
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"Chris" ckccomputer btinternet.com wrote:
SAME THING IS HAPPENING! I even lost data on one of the sata drives I transferred over. Always keep a backup copy (or two) of important data. That is doubly true when things start going wrong or when doing major operations. |
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$mft problem anyone?
"Chris" wrote in message ... "leia176" wrote in message ... Does anyone know what's going on here? Please! Any ideas are appreciated! I had: Winxp updated to latest ABIT iT7 Max2 Ver 2. 1gb Crucial ram 2.4 gh intel Ati radeon 8500 Soundblaster audigy 2 2 ide drives 2 sata drives I started getting "$MFT" errors (master file table?) first on one of my sata drives. Occasionally other drives. The sata port went out completely. Everytime this would happen I'd reboot and windows would go through this whole scan disk type thing recovering orphaned files. At first I thought the drive was bad, and then the port was bad, but it was happening on all my drives! Since that board definitely had a bad port I went for an: bad memory is where i would start. Win XP updated to latest ASUS P4p800 deluxe used an old ati rage videocard just for installing no sound yet 2 ide drives 2 sata drives SAME THING IS HAPPENING! I even lost data on one of the sata drives I transferred over. Are all my drives going bad at once? They are all pretty new..within a year old. Could this possibly be a ram or cpu problem? Probably a failing power supply if you are using the same one. To test your RAM, boot to a memtest86 boot CD (freeware.) The click you hear is probably the hard drives parking the heads when the power to them is interrupted. PSU faults are very, very, common. HTH, -- Rob |
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Per John Doe:
Always keep a backup copy (or two) of important data. That is doubly true when things start going wrong or when doing major operations. After one experience, I expanded that to several copies - with at least one in a place where I cannot get to it the same day. Reason: I had a USB controller go south on me once and it was frying whatever drive got connected to it. Connected the 1st drive, "poof"... "OK, bad drive".... connected the 2nd drive "Poof".... can't recall if it dawned on me then or I managed to fry a third drive... Anyhow, now I have a half-dozen backup drives and a couple of the are offsite where I cannot get to them in the heat of the moment. -- Pete Cresswell |
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PeteCresswell wrote:
After one experience, I expanded that to several copies - with at least one in a place where I cannot get to it the same day. Reason: I had a USB controller go south on me once and it was frying whatever drive got connected to it. Connected the 1st drive, "poof"... "OK, bad drive".... connected the 2nd drive "Poof".... can't recall if it dawned on me then or I managed to fry a third drive... Anyhow, now I have a half-dozen backup drives and a couple of the are offsite where I cannot get to them in the heat of the moment. There are drives that actually have a USB interface on them? Haven't seen or heard of one. I have seen and used USB-attached hard disks but they have a SATA interface to connects to a USB-to-SATA protocol converter PCB inside the external drive case. The bad USB controller would only fry the USB-2-SATA converter inside the external case. Did you remove the hard disk from the USB enclosure and try a new USB enclosure? Having more 2 copies, one on-site and one off-site, makes sense to protect against fire, theft, or other damage or loss but I don't think you really needed to make half a dozen copies on separate storage. The hard disk inside the USB enclosure was probably working and just had to be moved to another USB enclosure. Personally, for the base or annual backup, I prefer removable media, like optical discs. They are separate of the drive electronics and mechanicals. If the drive goes bad, slide the disc into a new optical drive. The hard disk is faster, yes, but requires USB3 to approach internal drive speed on SATA3. With a new mobo, I'd probably see how well a USB3 drive performed but I'm still using a mobo with only USB2 so I go with an internal HDD for daily, weekly, and monthly backups and use the optical drive for base or annual snapshots. The permanence of closing the session on optical media prevents "accidental" deletes, altering, or further encryption my backups: no writes, just reads. |
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Per VanguardLH:
There are drives that actually have a USB interface on them? Haven't seen or heard of one. I have seen and used USB-attached hard disks but they have a SATA interface to connects to a USB-to-SATA protocol converter PCB inside the external drive case. The bad USB controller would only fry the USB-2-SATA converter inside the external case. Did you remove the hard disk from the USB enclosure and try a new USB enclosure? My Bad: I use USB enclosures. Now that I think of it, though, the drives within the enclosure at that time were whatever the precursor to SATA was (EIDE?).... dunno if that makes any diff.... I did try the drives in another enclosure and they did not work. So I probably was wrong about the source of the problem and it was the enclosure rather than the mobo. This was a looooong time ago.... But the basic lesson seems to remain valid: keep a couple of backups out of reach in the heat of the moment and/or stupidity.... -- Pete Cresswell |
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