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Alright... So I powered on the fileserver this afternoon, disk check consistency came up, I said fine, whatever, left the room, came back... .... .... and it erased everything. Like, EVERYTHING on my 250GB drive.
Fortunately, I have an 80 that isn't in any rig with backups of the important stuff (applications, cd images, My Documents, etc, etc) but I did just lose 36 GB of MP3s, and a good 80GB of super8/16mm/DV footage, which is the real kick in the pants, because I 'telecine' with a DV camera, very slowly and carefully.
The rig:
P4 1.7
Asus P4T-E
512MB Samsung RDRAM
20 GB Maxtor - god knows how old, running like a champ.
250 GB Maxtor - <6 months old.
AOpen DVD-ROM
Creative SB Live! 5.1
Netgear FA310TX
Antec SmartPower 350w
Windows2000 SP4
I'm positive every piece of driver/software/OS is up-to-date, there was a clean install done on this machine a month ago, after I needed the 60GB boot drive in it for something else.
The drive is functioning normally, albeit sans data, the Windows chkdsk utility pretty much wiped the drive - Oh, wait - It left the Creative SB Live! Driver pack in a folder. Any recommendations for recovery from home, or is this something I send off for recovery? I am considering it seeing as I killed a CD-ROM a few years ago ripping all my CDs, and the thought of the vinyl ripping process makes my stomach turn... I still need to run a total hardware check on the drive (I use Advanced Troubleshooter self-booting diagnostic for hardware woes), but it did just get a full checkup last month.
The PC is acting completely normally like nothing happened, except roughly 150 GB of data vanishing. I treat my hardware pretty well, until it fails me. It's a shame this drive is so new, I may shoot it for the sake of venting my frustrations rather than RMA'ing it if I can find a defect with the drive. Anyways, I'm going to leave it offline until I get some course of action here.
Any input would be appreciated. Anyone suggesting I keep a better eye on my computer while doing a disk check can just not bother posting, I'm not in the mood to hear it right now. Since when does it check the storage drive for consistency upon boot, anyways? It's always the boot drive. There was no OS on the drive, nothing but data!
Also, re: Why don't you back this stuff up? - I do back this stuff up. I just bought a DL Benq DVD-R and the discs aren't going to be delivered by Fedex until tomorrow. Seriously. Had it waited 24 hours to do this I'd not even care. Or, had I just ordered the media from the 'Egg and paid the $5 extra per pack, it would've arrived with the drive and this may have been averted. Dammit!
/whine - If MS's disk check at startup is supposed to be to preserve your goddamned data, why does it destroy it so often? Some Googling on the subject yields a lot of this...
Fortunately, I have an 80 that isn't in any rig with backups of the important stuff (applications, cd images, My Documents, etc, etc) but I did just lose 36 GB of MP3s, and a good 80GB of super8/16mm/DV footage, which is the real kick in the pants, because I 'telecine' with a DV camera, very slowly and carefully.
The rig:
P4 1.7
Asus P4T-E
512MB Samsung RDRAM
20 GB Maxtor - god knows how old, running like a champ.
250 GB Maxtor - <6 months old.
AOpen DVD-ROM
Creative SB Live! 5.1
Netgear FA310TX
Antec SmartPower 350w
Windows2000 SP4
I'm positive every piece of driver/software/OS is up-to-date, there was a clean install done on this machine a month ago, after I needed the 60GB boot drive in it for something else.
The drive is functioning normally, albeit sans data, the Windows chkdsk utility pretty much wiped the drive - Oh, wait - It left the Creative SB Live! Driver pack in a folder. Any recommendations for recovery from home, or is this something I send off for recovery? I am considering it seeing as I killed a CD-ROM a few years ago ripping all my CDs, and the thought of the vinyl ripping process makes my stomach turn... I still need to run a total hardware check on the drive (I use Advanced Troubleshooter self-booting diagnostic for hardware woes), but it did just get a full checkup last month.
The PC is acting completely normally like nothing happened, except roughly 150 GB of data vanishing. I treat my hardware pretty well, until it fails me. It's a shame this drive is so new, I may shoot it for the sake of venting my frustrations rather than RMA'ing it if I can find a defect with the drive. Anyways, I'm going to leave it offline until I get some course of action here.
Any input would be appreciated. Anyone suggesting I keep a better eye on my computer while doing a disk check can just not bother posting, I'm not in the mood to hear it right now. Since when does it check the storage drive for consistency upon boot, anyways? It's always the boot drive. There was no OS on the drive, nothing but data!
Also, re: Why don't you back this stuff up? - I do back this stuff up. I just bought a DL Benq DVD-R and the discs aren't going to be delivered by Fedex until tomorrow. Seriously. Had it waited 24 hours to do this I'd not even care. Or, had I just ordered the media from the 'Egg and paid the $5 extra per pack, it would've arrived with the drive and this may have been averted. Dammit!
/whine - If MS's disk check at startup is supposed to be to preserve your goddamned data, why does it destroy it so often? Some Googling on the subject yields a lot of this...
