Corrupt Data on a new WD200 gig drive...

insultcomicdog

I just bought a new WD 200 gig drive and I'm having major issues with it..I thought it would be a simple matter of swapping out an ancient 8 gig drive, but that doesn't seem to be the case..Windows XP detects the drive as having 186 capacity...

Symptoms:
1) Data in some folders become corrupt and unusable, upon reboot I get a "deleting orphan files" screen before I get the the desktop screen...I've lost about 25 gigs of data so far....

2) I can rip dvds onto my original drive, but when I try to rip to the new drive the rip is corrupt....The video seems to be fragments of other files were previously on the drive....On the flipside, I can copy rips over from the original drive, which play fine on the problem drive.....


Current Setup

Primary:
Master WD 120 gig 7200 rpm
Slave Plextor DVD +- R/RW PX-708A

Secondary:
Master WD 200 gig 7200 rpm

What I've done:

I've used chkdsk, norton disk doctor, and wd lifeguard diagnostic tools...all which say that that the drive is problem free...I have all the lastest updates and patches for XP...SP2 etc....And scanned for viruses.....

My original setup was this:

Primary:
Master WD 120 gig 7200 rpm
Slave WD 200 gig 7200 rpm

Master: Panasonic DVD Drive
Secondary: Plextor DVD +- R/RW PX-708A

I was told by the guy at the computer store to set the 200 gig drive as a master, as differences in drive speed may be the culprit...So I split up the drives on two seperate channels, as shown in the setup described above and took ou the dvd drive altogether....Do both harddrives really need to be on seperate IDE channels??

You any of you guys have any ideas about my data loss issues or dvd ripping problems?? Any help would be much appreciated!!!

gibbonsl

It SHOULD not matter which IDE they are on

try putting both drives as master on one of the IDEs and the CD-ROMs as slaves

another possibility is the motherboard drivers, tho why only the new drive only, I don't know

also possibility is jumper settings, tho I doubt it

also does it do it, with ether CDROM drive?

insultcomicdog

I didn't know you could put two masters (hds) on one IDE and two slaves (cd-roms) on another...Will try....I could try ripping from the dvd-rom, but that wouldn't explain why ripping onto my old drive from my dvd writer works.....

gibbonsl

arg that is what I get for posting when I have a major headache:banghead:

this is the setup I meant

IDE 1
HD master CDROM slave

IDE 2
HD master CDROM slave

insultcomicdog

Tnks for the reply...that is the setup I have currently...The HD that I'm have problems with is set as a master on IDE 2....I haven't even connected my DVD-rom.....


Current Setup

Primary:
Master WD 120 gig 7200 rpm
Slave Plextor DVD +- R/RW PX-708A

Secondary:
Master WD 200 gig 7200 rpm

gibbonsl

have you tryed setting all the drives to cable select?

also what cables are you running, 80 pin or 40 pin,

only run them as cable select if they are 80 pin types

might try other cables, bad IDE cables can do that

EDIT do you have the latest BIOS and drivers, for the motherboard?

insultcomicdog

I've taken out my old HD....And did a clean install of windows XP on the new drive....

Current settings:

Primary:
Master WD 200 gig 7200 rpm
Slave Plextor DVD +- R/RW PX-708A


Now my dvds rip fine!!! I haven't had data loss issues yet....BUT....now I get a system hang every other restart.....After the windows logo on boot, I get a hang with a black screen...... Any ideas? Do you think could still be a faulty drive...I've partioned this drive, so that XP sits on it's own 10 gig partion......I defragged it, and XP took about 10 times longer to defrag the 10 gig partioned than on my old drive...I'm thinking about trying new cables....