Losing data

[Toxcity]

I keep losing songs from my music drive.

For example.. I have all of Anthraxs Albums, I go into the fold with them in and the songs are still there but will not play and infomation is missing.

Check piccar!

What shall I do?

 

[Rastalovich]

If u do a properties thing on the files, is the info there ?

 

[Ham]

Chkdsk

 

[Toxcity]

Yeah, like the normal.

How big, what to open it with location.

But nothing in the summary. :eh:

@Ham - Already did that matey!

 

[Rastalovich]

So when u goto the properties thing, those 2 files have no info in them and that`s why they`re not displaying in an explorer window.

I take it the info used to be there then ?

 

[Toxcity]

Yep all info used to be there.. let me just check a working file.

Edit: Working files have the summary filled in with Artist and names and lengh of song.. so on.

 

[Toxcity]

This is what im doing now.

Moving all 50GBs of stuff to another HDD and then going to scan this beast for bad sectors.

Then I made Zero the drive. Reformat and then see where I am..

If none of this works well, I will Buy a new HDD!

 

[AmBush]

I Have jus had a similar problem and windoze kept crashing & Forcing CHKDSK, even After spyware & virus sweep.

After fresh install it was still doing it :banghead: Thought it was HDD problem so i installed Hard Drive Inspector Couldn't spot any probs, installed Speedfan

Not much of note until i notice the voltage's were all over the place.

 

[Toxcity]

Okay that just scared me sooo.. I got the multimeter out..

And my 12v line is running at 12.77v and the 5v is at about 5.33.

That to me sounds okay!

Anyone disagree?

 

[Rastalovich]

So the tracks don`t actually play either ? Sorry missed that bit >.<

 

[Toxcity]

So the tracks don`t actually play either ? Sorry missed that bit >.<

Yeah, they don't play either!

 

[Rastalovich]

I got a single track stuck on my OS drive of my main pc. Can`t move it, can`t play it. The drive is ok, it`s just effed at the filesystem level. Lazily working around it atm >.<

 

[Toxcity]

Well as I speak the drive is getting checked...

Once that is done I am zeroing and then new format on it..

Hopefully that will fix most errors!

Will post back with results.

 

[mrapoc]

That happens to my data disk when i try to access something while its being checked (scandisk) - this wouldnt be happening (or similiar) would it

 

[Toxcity]

Right, finsihed sorting the drive out now.

Is there a program that scans drives and files for errors or something a little weird?

Just so I don't see anymore corruption.

 

[AmBush]

You Could try Diskeeper Set it to "Boot Time Defragmentation" with the folowing options

• Defragment the paging file
• Defragment the Master File Table
• Run the system CHKDSK utility before Defragmentation
• 
  
• Produce the summary log file

 

[mVp24]

12.77 seems high. Isn't it supposed to be only .3 fluctuation?

 

[Toxcity]

You Could try Diskeeper Set it to "Boot Time Defragmentation" with the folowing options

• Defragment the paging file
• Defragment the Master File Table
• Run the system CHKDSK utility before Defragmentation
• 
  
• Produce the summary log file

Ill give it ago!

12.77 seems high. Isn't it supposed to be only .3 fluctuation?

Im not sure to be honest. :eh:

But it doesn't seem to go much lower than that?!

 

[mVp24]

Ill give it ago!

Im not sure to be honest. :eh:

But it doesn't seem to go much lower than that?!

Well if it is .3 which I'm pretty sure it is, then you should change your PSU regardless imo.

 

[Rastalovich]

Guys won`t like it, but anything up to 13.10 ~should~ be ok depending on how crap the components are. 5% or 10% tolerance. Can`t see 10.9 being that sucessful tho.