Drive Corruption - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II

m0dm0 · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:10

Hi,

- I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache drive the other week and fitted it in my PC.
- I have a 200GB Western digital SATA drive on which XP is running and under which I used Disk Management to initialise and make the 500GB drive into two partitions of sizes and 400GB and 100GB both NTFS.

The problem ...

This is happening to random files and folders it seems!

Help! I've moved a lot of important data onto this new drive!

Thanks

Phemo · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:16

I've had exactly the same problem with a Samsung 750GB F1. Tried it in two PCs and it was doing the same in both (random files corrupted) and I tried various SATA controllers and clean OS installations to no avail. In the end I ran the Samsung diagnostics utility which did indeed report that the drive was knackered, so I suggest running Seagate's diagnostics first.

m0dm0 · 10 Jan 2008 at 22:22

OK, thanks i'll give that a go now.

Senture · 10 Jan 2008 at 23:39

I'd recomend that too. Run the dos based version if you can, it has a more comprihensive (sp?) testing procedure

Buckster · 14 Jan 2008 at 18:17

eek this worrying

about to go RAID 0 and was tossing up between

(2x 500GB)

2x7200.11 or
2xAAKS or
2x 501LJs

Humate · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:38

Buckster said:
eek this worrying

about to go RAID 0 and was tossing up between

(2x 500GB)

2x7200.11 or
2xAAKS or
2x 501LJs

7200.11's are great drives. You should never be concerned by a single isolated incident. the courier may have played football with his drive for all we know

Selekt0r · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:58

m0dm0 said:
Help! I've moved a lot of important data onto this new drive!

Without a backup copy elsewhere...? :confused: