HARD DRIVE ERASED!?

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About 2 weeks ago I bought a second hard drive. It is a seagate 160gb
hard drive. I set it up after a few problems of drives not being
read, I got it all running right. Just last night I tried to access 1
folder in the second hard drive and it said it was corrupt or
unreadable. However, another folder in that drive worked just fine.

So E:\Folder was corrupt, but E:\Folder2 was fine.

I restarted my computer and everything was fine. HOWEVER, i let some
stuff download/upload on my computer when I went to bed. I woke up to
see that Folder1 (folder which I was dling/uling to) was saying it was
corrupt again. I close out everythign and restart my computer..

Now my second hard drive which was once named "Second Hard Drive" is
now named local disk, and when I clicked it, it said "disk not
formated yet, woul dyou like to format it? yes/no? WHAT THE HELL
HAPPENED? Are all my files gone? I had about 70gigs of my most
important files on that hard drive! I am going to break stuff if I
can't recover those files.

PLEASE HELP ME WITH A SOLUTION OR ADVICE!

Thanks
 
Ben said:
About 2 weeks ago I bought a second hard drive.
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Bought it new?
It is a seagate 160gb
hard drive. I set it up after a few problems of drives not being
read,
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Describe "problems" in detail.

Describe "not being read" in detail.
I got it all running right.
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Due to what actions?

How is the drive cabled? How is the drive jumpered? What is on the same
cable; jumpered how on which connector?
Just last night I tried to access 1
folder in the second hard drive and it said it was corrupt or
unreadable.
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How much use has there evre been of the new HD?
However, another folder in that drive worked just fine.

So E:\Folder was corrupt, but E:\Folder2 was fine.

I restarted my computer and everything was fine. HOWEVER, i let some
stuff download/upload on my computer when I went to bed. I woke up to
see that Folder1 (folder which I was dling/uling to) was saying it was
corrupt again. I close out everythign and restart my computer..

Now my second hard drive which was once named "Second Hard Drive" is
now named local disk, and when I clicked it, it said "disk not
formated yet, woul dyou like to format it? yes/no? WHAT THE HELL
HAPPENED? Are all my files gone? I had about 70gigs of my most
important files on that hard drive! I am going to break stuff if I
can't recover those files.
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The less you do with it now then the more likely you can recover once the
proper course is determined.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Ben) wrote in
About 2 weeks ago I bought a second hard drive. It is a seagate
160gb hard drive. I set it up after a few problems of drives
not being read, I got it all running right. Just last night I
tried to access 1 folder in the second hard drive and it said it
was corrupt or unreadable. However, another folder in that
drive worked just fine.

So E:\Folder was corrupt, but E:\Folder2 was fine.

I restarted my computer and everything was fine. HOWEVER, i let
some stuff download/upload on my computer when I went to bed. I
woke up to see that Folder1 (folder which I was dling/uling to)
was saying it was corrupt again. I close out everythign and
restart my computer..

Now my second hard drive which was once named "Second Hard
Drive" is now named local disk, and when I clicked it, it said
"disk not formated yet, woul dyou like to format it? yes/no?
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? Are all my files gone? I had about
70gigs of my most important files on that hard drive! I am
going to break stuff if I can't recover those files.

PLEASE HELP ME WITH A SOLUTION OR ADVICE!

Thanks
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Run manufacturer's diagnostics to verify the drive is OK. Replace
it if it fails.
Reformat and repartition the disk.
Restore your data from your backup.
 
Frank le Spikkin said:
(e-mail address removed) (Ben) wrote in


Run manufacturer's diagnostics to verify the drive is OK. Replace
it if it fails.
Reformat and repartition the disk.
Restore your data from your backup.
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NO!
 
Frank le Spikkin said:
WHY NOT?
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That may make things worse.

The first issue is recovery. See the OP's opening post. After the recovery
has been evaluated and/or completed THEN HD mfg's diagnostics come into
play.
 
That may make things worse.

The first issue is recovery. See the OP's opening post. After
the recovery has been evaluated and/or completed THEN HD mfg's
diagnostics come into play.
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Yes I know all that. You're missing my point.

Where the heck did 70GB of "most important files" appear from in
the space of a fortnight? I'm guessing it came from some other
media, which can now act as the backup the OP didn't take
explicitly.
 
Ben said:
About 2 weeks ago I bought a second hard drive. It is a seagate 160gb
hard drive. I set it up after a few problems of drives not being
read, I got it all running right. Just last night I tried to access 1
folder in the second hard drive and it said it was corrupt or
unreadable. However, another folder in that drive worked just fine.

So E:\Folder was corrupt, but E:\Folder2 was fine.

I restarted my computer and everything was fine. HOWEVER, i let some
stuff download/upload on my computer when I went to bed. I woke up to
see that Folder1 (folder which I was dling/uling to) was saying it was
corrupt again. I close out everythign and restart my computer..

Now my second hard drive which was once named "Second Hard Drive" is
now named local disk, and when I clicked it, it said "disk not
formated yet, woul dyou like to format it? yes/no? WHAT THE HELL
HAPPENED? Are all my files gone? I had about 70gigs of my most
important files on that hard drive! I am going to break stuff if I
can't recover those files.

PLEASE HELP ME WITH A SOLUTION OR ADVICE!

Thanks
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You did make a backup of all your important files, right?
 
If you have more than 1 stick of memory installed and they are from differnt
manufacturers, you can end up with corrupt files.
If you do have more than 1 stick, shutdown the computer, remove all but 1
and try it that way for a while.
 
Frank le Spikkin said:
Yes I know all that. You're missing my point.

Where the heck did 70GB of "most important files" appear from in
the space of a fortnight? I'm guessing it came from some other
media, which can now act as the backup the OP didn't take
explicitly.
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Obviously NOT. Read the opening post in this thread.
 
RonK said:
If you have more than 1 stick of memory installed and they are from differnt
manufacturers, you can end up with corrupt files.
If you do have more than 1 stick, shutdown the computer, remove all but 1
and try it that way for a while.
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He said he got a second HD and nothing about any RAM. RAM is highly likely
NOT to be involved from his description. The number one rule of debugging
is NOT to start running around like headless chicken.
 
root said:
The OP made it clear that he had no backup so rubbing his nose in that
constitutes a troll.
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Where in the post did he make it clear he had no backup? I followed the
previous thread where he was trying to get help to get the drive
installed in the first place. He had all kinds of problems. So the
natural thing to do was to make a backup of files once the drive was
installed and data put on it. It was a legitimate question. And who
made you the decider of what someone else should post. Keep to the
thread and mind your own business.
 
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