Hard Drive problems

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John P.

Hi,

I have a secondary WD hdd with 120gb (JB RTL) with one partition for the
whole drive.

Today, the computer locked and when it came back, I got the "the file or
directory is corrupted and unreadable" message when trying to access data on
that particular drive. After "chkdsk /f", WinXP and PMagic were not able to
see any data on the drive, Partition Magic reported "bad boot signature
byte".
While I thought everything was gone, I've restarted again and all data seems
to be back.
One new folder was created "found.000" with two directories "dir0001.chk"
and another one.

Could this problem have been caused by a virus or something or is the drive
itself responsible (it's fairly new).
Should I backup data from this hdd and get another one or is this something
normal with Winxp/ntfs?

Please respond to ng... I hope I'd find a solution since I'm kind of affraid
to restart again.

Sincerely,
John P.
 
Before going out and buying a new drive use ur anti virus
program and see if it is a virus...........
it is a good policy to periodically back up your
data....
 
I've used Norton Antivirus with the latest definitions to check the whole
system and hasn't found anything.
Before running it, there was a strange occurence that I've never seen before
with NAV - it had problems starting up and rightclick options "Scan with
NortonAntivirus" was not present.
Then I'm thinking if it was a virus, it should have attacked the main hdd
too - is that correct?

Sincerely,
John P.
 
I've tried to move some files arround and some folders that were accesible
before are now "not accessible" and "Access is Denied" - right clicking on
that particular folder shows 0kb in size while I know there are some files.

Appreciate any ideas or help.

John P.
 
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