WD 120 deletes files and more...

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MagikLair

Hello,
I am on my second WD120GB hard drive. The first one went dead and I
had them send me out a new one. Now my new one seems to be deleting
files, files and folders are disappearing, on a daily basis. I've done
several virus and Trojan scans and have found nothing. Also when I go
file properties on a folder, the size and the size on the drive are
different. Has anyone had similar problems to what I am experiencing?
Thanks everyone,
Brian
 
[email protected] said:
Hello,
I am on my second WD120GB hard drive. The first one went dead and I
had them send me out a new one. Now my new one seems to be deleting
files, files and folders are disappearing, on a daily basis. I've done
several virus and Trojan scans and have found nothing. Also when I go
file properties on a folder, the size and the size on the drive are
different. Has anyone had similar problems to what I am experiencing?
Thanks everyone,
Brian
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The WDxxxxBB drives seem to be rancid with problems. (JB - so far - are
OK by me.)

Odie
 
Previously [email protected] said:
Hello,
I am on my second WD120GB hard drive. The first one went dead and I
had them send me out a new one. Now my new one seems to be deleting
files, files and folders are disappearing, on a daily basis. I've done
several virus and Trojan scans and have found nothing. Also when I go
file properties on a folder, the size and the size on the drive are
different. Has anyone had similar problems to what I am experiencing?
Thanks everyone,
Brian
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Sounds like a software problem. The drive is not aware of files and
folders, it just sees raw secrots with 512 bytes each.

One possibility would be that it has severe writing problems and the
data you loose is still in its write-cache when you power-off. Depends
on the OS and WD's implementation of the flush-buffer commend, I guess.
And it would mean that you should notice it being painfully slow
from time to time during normal operation.

Maybe try disabling the write-cache of the disk.

Arno
 
Size and size on drive are almost always different, and that is normal.
Any pattern to what is disappearing?

IMF
 
Irwin said:
Size and size on drive are almost always different, and that is normal.
Any pattern to what is disappearing?

IMF
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Just some folders were deleted. And not on the same day.
Brian
 
Just some folders were deleted. And not on the same day.
Brian
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Disk drives don't do that kind of thing on their own. You've probably
got a virus, despite what the scans say. Or perhaps the cleaning lady
is playing tricks on you. Or another machine is fiddling with yours
over the network.
 
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