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2 Drives Crash.. Why? help...

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MastaKilla

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So I formated my hdrive today after gettin my new computer up and running (3200 @ 2500mhz).. Wanted to do a clean install after I had been tweakin last few days. Anyway.. so i install winxp sp2 and get into windows. I install all my drivers etc. Bout 2 hours later im browsing web and all a sudden I get a blue screen error. I didnt even take care to note what it said.. I assumed it was my overclock which mighta caused it. (although I had been runnin at the current speed stable for 2 days now) anyway.. i reboot.. and i get nothin and it seems as if nothings on my main drive anymore.

So I put in the xp cd.. and I go into the setup.. and brings up my main drive as unpartioned space!?!? So im like wtf.. weird.. ill reinstall windows. Besides the main drive.. i have 2 80gb storage drives which have all my files of importance.. I figured it was just my main drive which had somehow messed up.. but now in windows xp after reinstalling.. only 1 of 2 the 2 storage drives shows up.. when i go to disk management it shows both storage drives there.. but one says its "Dynamic Foreign". I have option to "convert" to basic disc.. Problem is I dont want/cant lose the information on this drive..

My question is.. what in hells name coulda caused this? Blue screen, then 2 drives losing all partition info? Also..what can i do to recover my data?

**update**

hmm.. well i found some software that is suposed to recover lost data called getbackdata.. when it scans the file system of the hard drive im tryin to recover it lists it as: "secure file system (peter gutmann) "

i have no idea why it would be converted to this.. does anyone have any clue??


computer specs:
a64 3200+ @ 2550mhz
1gb pc4000 xms corsair
1raptor75gb , 2x800jb 80gb wd
6800gt 390/1170
msi k8n neo 2 plat
 
MastaKilla said:
So I formated my hdrive today after gettin my new computer up and running (3200 @ 2500mhz).. Wanted to do a clean install after I had been tweakin last few days. Anyway.. so i install winxp sp2 and get into windows. I install all my drivers etc. Bout 2 hours later im browsing web and all a sudden I get a blue screen error. I didnt even take care to note what it said.. I assumed it was my overclock which mighta caused it. (although I had been runnin at the current speed stable for 2 days now) anyway.. i reboot.. and i get nothin and it seems as if nothings on my main drive anymore.

So I put in the xp cd.. and I go into the setup.. and brings up my main drive as unpartioned space!?!? So im like wtf.. weird.. ill reinstall windows. Besides the main drive.. i have 2 80gb storage drives which have all my files of importance.. I figured it was just my main drive which had somehow messed up.. but now in windows xp after reinstalling.. only 1 of 2 the 2 storage drives shows up.. when i go to disk management it shows both storage drives there.. but one says its "Dynamic Foreign". I have option to "convert" to basic disc.. Problem is I dont want/cant lose the information on this drive..

My question is.. what in hells name coulda caused this? Blue screen, then 2 drives losing all partition info? Also..what can i do to recover my data?

**update**

hmm.. well i found some software that is suposed to recover lost data called getbackdata.. when it scans the file system of the hard drive im tryin to recover it lists it as: "secure file system (peter gutmann) "

i have no idea why it would be converted to this.. does anyone have any clue??


computer specs:
a64 3200+ @ 2550mhz
1gb pc4000 xms corsair
1raptor75gb , 2x800jb 80gb wd
6800gt 390/1170
msi k8n neo 2 plat
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I had a similar problem a couple of years ago playing with overclocking. My raid card did not like the overclock and scrambled my drives. It has made me skittish about overclocking. I would say the controller on the board (I assume that is where you have the drives set up) doesnt like that overclock.

I hope that helps.

Doctor X
 
MastaKilla said:
hmm ic.. does havin the htt at 4x cause a problem?
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possibly.. it would make sense tho... that is the cpu to memory bus... you could be corrupting something there. anyone else have a better explanation?

Doctor X
 
If you are running your raptor on either SATA 1 or 2 its not locked and any speed above ~230 will most likely corrupt data. 3 and 4 are controlled by the Nforce3 chipset and are locked - im running my raptor on SATA3 @ 250FSB and have no issues.
 
they were dynamic after the crash. thats what they turned into..

and yah. im plugged into sata 3

im all recovered now.. and havent had a problem since.. im still scared though its gonna happen again. weird thing is how stable system is.. did all the stress tests without a hitch.
 
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