Hi,

I'm hoping somebody can help me out. I recently bought a 200Gb Maxtor (7200rpm) hard drive for a huge collection of MP3s, and my movie collection. I had around 110Gb on there in total.

The day after xmas (typical), I couldn't access one of the folders across the network. It's probably worth mentioning that the 200Gb drive is in a server which is on 24/7 on my home LAN. I logged onto the server (Windows 2000), and found that I couldn't access 75% of files/folders on the server, as I got an error saying that the file/folder is corrupted.

I rebooted and it ran a scandisk then started listing:

Deleting orphan file 1234 (and so on until it reached 50000 or something).

This took 40 mins then it said it was recovering the orphaned files and when it booted into Windows 2000 I had a load of found.000, found.001 folders with recovered data which was only about 10% of it.

Not a good start to the new year, but I have no idea why?

Is the 200Gb Maxtor crap?
Should it not be on 24/7?
Could it be the constant file access as I'm running FTP server as well?

I don't think I was hacked as I'm running a pretty well configured firewall and have up to date anti-virus software. But any comments from anyone about this would be much apreciated!

Thanks.

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The way I see it is that by using a single large hard drive you are *putting all of your eggs into one basket* so to speak. If you go along that route you need a means of (preferably automated) backup, say onto CD-ROM. There could be a variety of reasons why files and folders become corrupt. You should test the HDD to check that it functions correctly and check your warrantry details.

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Since I've formatted the drive it appears to be ok, but I was wondering if I was hacked? I was running an FTP server on there, but it had anon access turned off.

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Possible,.. any firewall?

You have to know that all HD partition is on it own. So, it is very easy for a system to override and cause generate error.

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I don't think I was hacked as I'm running a pretty well configured firewall and have up to date anti-virus software.

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The sad fact is that hard drives can go bad.
If I had one go bad this soon then I would send it back for a replacement.
Generally if you get a bad one it will start showing up early and if you ignore it the symptoms will get worse until it bytes the dust completely.
So while it is under warranty replace it.
Just tell them its trashed and you cant even run diagnostics on it.
Just my opinion by the way.

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