Hard disk becomes floppy

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On that special day, Rob v. Albada, ([email protected]) said...
When I restart the computer, my virus scanner (F-Prot) finds nothing
wrong, I can access E: and all the files are there again. Until the
next crash.
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This looks like a corrupt data structure information. The reasons might
be several:

- The logic of your hard drive is going bad. Please check the
s.m.a.r.t. status of the disk.

- The ram has a faulty portion, and a bit or byte temds to "tilt", and
the error correction fails.

- The chipset is overheating, and as it is the interface for the hard
drive controller, the information sent from and to the hard disk is
corrupted.

A virus doesn't do such things. If malware messes up your partition, it
does that *permanently*.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Duane Arnold - 26.11.2005 11:09 :
Send a email to the author of Xnews he wrote the thing not me. Whatever
Xnews is doing it's doing it. But I'll see if I can accommodate you. He
should have incorporated a spell checker in the thing as far as I am
concerned.

Duane :).
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THX for your response. Have you checked your repostings concerning my
mentioned bug of your newsclient? Did you also see the confusing
quotings your newsclient is producing especially within long threads
(see my quoted examples)? If not, there must be a bug somewhereelse and
you are not responsible. Otherwise it's YOUR part to do something
against your's newsclient faulty behavior (using an other application,
configure right or send an email to the author of the software YOU are
using) NOT the recipients, IMO.

EOD
 
Op Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:59:48 +0100, Gabriele Neukam
On that special day, Rob v. Albada, ([email protected]) said...


This looks like a corrupt data structure information.
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Yes, indeed.
The reasons might
be several:

- The logic of your hard drive is going bad. Please check the
s.m.a.r.t. status of the disk.
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How?

I downloaded PowerMax, a Maxtor diagnostic program. (the drive
concerned is a Maxtor drive) and guess what happened?

Powermax wants to create a diskette first, and asks for a floppy disk
in drive A:

Whatever disk I use, it keeps saying: Invalid sized diskette in drive.

While I am certain the diskettes which I tried are 1.44 MB ones as
required by PowerMax.

Therefore I am unable to run Powermax.

CheckIt Diagnostics tests A: C: D: and E: all OK.
- The ram has a faulty portion, and a bit or byte temds to "tilt", and
the error correction fails.
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I tested the memory with Memtest-86 vs. 31. and it found nothing
wrong.
- The chipset is overheating, and as it is the interface for the hard
drive controller, the information sent from and to the hard disk is
corrupted.

A virus doesn't do such things. If malware messes up your partition, it
does that *permanently*.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Rang the vendor of my mainboard this afternoon. He thinks the power
management is the culprit. Switches off the hard disks and the problem
arises when I start using the computer again. He may be right. Do you
have any ideas concernig this?

The BIOS is an Intel BIOS dated 09/29/2004.

Kind regards, and thanks for your advice,

Rob van Albada, Amsterdam.
 
From: "Rob v. Albada" <[email protected]>


| How?
|
| I downloaded PowerMax, a Maxtor diagnostic program. (the drive
| concerned is a Maxtor drive) and guess what happened?
|
| Powermax wants to create a diskette first, and asks for a floppy disk
| in drive A:
|
| Whatever disk I use, it keeps saying: Invalid sized diskette in drive.
|
| While I am certain the diskettes which I tried are 1.44 MB ones as
| required by PowerMax.
|
| Therefore I am unable to run Powermax.
|
| CheckIt Diagnostics tests A: C: D: and E: all OK.
|

And the platform/motherboard BIOS settings are properly set ? The "A:" floppy is a 1.44MB
floppy drive ?
 
Op Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:38:17 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
From: "Rob v. Albada" <[email protected]>


| How?
|
| I downloaded PowerMax, a Maxtor diagnostic program. (the drive
| concerned is a Maxtor drive) and guess what happened?
|
| Powermax wants to create a diskette first, and asks for a floppy disk
| in drive A:
|
| Whatever disk I use, it keeps saying: Invalid sized diskette in drive.
|
| While I am certain the diskettes which I tried are 1.44 MB ones as
| required by PowerMax.
|
| Therefore I am unable to run Powermax.
|
| CheckIt Diagnostics tests A: C: D: and E: all OK.
|

And the platform/motherboard BIOS settings are properly set ? The "A:" floppy is a 1.44MB
floppy drive ?
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O yes!

Otherwise, I never have trouble using this drive. It can read and
write.

Kind regards,

Rob van Albada, Amsterdam.
 
On that special day, Rob v. Albada, ([email protected]) said...
How?
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There are several tools out there, which will read this info from the
hard disk's logic chip and display it, like Everest.

I use Speedfan (www.almico.com) for checking the condition of my
system, tempereature wise, but it does also display the s.m.a.r.t
status (self monitoring etc blah). The SMART is built in into hard
disks since the late 1990ies. If there is anything wrong, you should AT
ONCE backup all important data and look for a new disk.

I hope it is the power down and not the hard disk itself. Your
mainboard should be accompanied by a manual in which you should check
whether there is a power settings section in the BIOS, and how it is
meant to be configured.

Normally, one can call the BIOS directly after switching the machine
on, by hitting keys like Del or F2.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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