disappearing hard drive - partition table error

kieofwoo · Post by **kieofwoo** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:36 am

Argh I just had a big scare - when I booted up today, windows could not seee anything on my 2nd hard drive - it didn't even get the volume name. When I tried to examine it with partition magic, it said there was a partition table error.

But after I rebooted, everything seems fine again.

So was it just a blip?
Or should I take this as a warning, backup everything and buy a new hard drive?

What's the best way to check the health of the drive? (it's extensively used for read/writing large chuncks of data for video editing/encoding)

kieofwoo · Post by **kieofwoo** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:18 pm

All cables etc are fine
Used maxtor's diagnostic tool - simple and advanced test - passed with no errors.
It appears to be ok right now.

Question - how long before it completely dies? Hours? Days? Months? ...

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:36 pm

Originally posted by kieofwoo
All cables etc are fine
Used maxtor's diagnostic tool - simple and advanced test - passed with no errors.
It appears to be ok right now.

Question - how long before it completely dies? Hours? Days? Months? ...

impossible to say.

how long you wait until getting a new drive or whatever should be directly related to how important the data on that drive is.

kieofwoo · Post by **kieofwoo** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:03 pm

i always ask those types of questions!

anyway thanks for the reply - I was getting lonely

i'm gonna back up all important stuff to cd-r asap and then see how the drive fares. One more warning though and i'm pulling out the credit card