CPU upgrade = corrupt harddisks

Saint_K · Jul 19, 2004, 09:07 PM

Hello all,
I have a rather weird problem! I've tried everything i know, and nothing seems to work! so i hope any of you can advice me!

First my system specs: (yes its old)
AMD 900MHZ, 512 MB SDram 133MHz, yetway MB v2266B, NVIDIA G-force 4 MX440 DDR 64MB, 1x Maxtor 40GB @7200rpm, 1x Maxtor 80GB (brand new), Pinnacle PCTV card, Soundblaster 5.1 L!ve, 1x dvd-rom, 1x cd-rw, 2x nic

Problem:
I got a AMD 1600+ CPU for free, and when i put it into my pc, i booted up windows normally. Everything went fine. Then i rebooted, and at boot it said: Data corrupt or missing, press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.
So i took the HDD and tried to checkdisk it in a other winXP machine. But the checkdisk simply wouldnt run. Then i took my old 10GB harddrive, put it in the pc, and setup windows correctly on it, without error/crashing. Then i connected my 40GB next to it again, and windows suddenly wanted to check the drive at start-up, so it did, it fixed loads of errors, and then booted windows. I rebooted, and then to find out my partitions where gone! I tried to recover them with "Agronise recovery expert", but it couldnt find my partitions. At that point i put it a 3rd drive, the 80GB and i started data recovery from the 40Gb, and recoverd all my files. I disconnect the 10GB drive, the 80GB drive, and start up my pc in dos mode, and Fdisk'ed the drive again, rebooted, formatted partition, reboot, start winXP install. Then i got option to format my drive as FAT32 or NTFS, i chose NTFS, at 20% it gave message "Harddrive corrupt". Everything i tried to fix that, but nothing seem to work, not even a low-level format of the drive.

So i take the good drive (80GB) and put it in, and as soon as i try setup windows, it gave me again message harddrive corrupt, and my next drive was damaged as it looked like...

So i desided to take back the 1600+ out of my system, and replace it again with the 900MHz. Then i could normally partition the hard disk, and setup windows! But because the 80GB was also currupt before, i tried to connect the 40GB again for datarecovery once more... But at that point windows simply didnt want to run. It would just give you a black screen at boot. So i disconnected the 40GB hard drive, tried boot again, and now again i get to see on the 80GB this time: Data corrupt or files missing, press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.

so now the 40GB, and the 80GB drives are currupt, and i am now running on the 10GB drive. But as soon as i wanna connect 1 of the 2 corrupt drives, windows wont load again.

Now the next weird thing, all partition didnt work, trying setup winXP, win2k, win98, nothing worked. But then i tried Linux SUSE 8.0, and it worked without a problem! It had no problems making partitions what so ever, and no problems at all with reading/wrinting on the disk.

After i saw that, i tried re-partition again to NTFS, and again message data corrupt.

Any one has any glue what is going on here?? I also tried a bios upgrade, nothing seems to work!

Any advice would be more then welcome

Greets SaintK

Judas · Jul 20, 2004, 01:07 AM

hmm.... A 1600+ runs on a 133fsb bust..... i'm not sure bought your motherboard.... but make sure it actually supports the 1600+ correctly and check for bios updates.... second.... i've seen this message... and i was getting it due to having my PCI bus overclocked simply 1 mhz (34mhz)..... another time i had a bad cable.... and it does somewhat make sence that linux installed and windows XP didn't... windows has a habit of detecting even the smallest error and aborting emediatly....

only major and most likely solution..

LOW LEVEL FORMAT.... for a 40gb... it'll take a damn long time... for a 80gb... guad.. just a bit more then over twice as long..

pr0digal jenius · Jul 20, 2004, 10:35 PM

LLF is no fun, but often a last resort(i have a 320 GB RAID Array and it took me 20 some odd hours) but yes..make sure you have the latest BIOS and that the 1600 is supported, and also if your board has a PCI/AGP lock, enable it at 33MHz

Judas · Jul 21, 2004, 12:07 AM

and to think that there are alot of people that think tha LLFing is what you do when you do a format and reinstall.....

Saint_K · Jul 21, 2004, 06:00 AM

ive done llf with maxtor utility, thanks for reply's, will see this afternoon if it can help me any further

Judas · Jul 21, 2004, 06:16 AM

Is SMART enabled.... you may want to run a SMART utility to see if it detects what kind of error is present....

Saint_K · Jul 21, 2004, 11:32 AM

hwta is such a smart utility ? And what does SMART do?

dipstick · Jul 21, 2004, 04:49 PM

I had a similar problem with corrupt files and windows freezing and such on one of my hds just recently. Even formatting would stick at about 65% for hours. I had to resort to a low level format that seemed to have done the trick. Also a good thing to check is to make sure all the pins are still on the drive. I've seen some come off with some ata cables and although they still worked they would corrupt and give problems. Also SMART is a diagnostic tool which constantly keeps an eye on the hard drives and reports if there are or will be any probs. It slows things down a bit but it is helpful in situations like yours. If the HD supports it, you can enable it in the bios

Saint_K · Jul 21, 2004, 04:56 PM

So i have SMART enabled in the bios, but that aint the tool is it?

Judas · Jul 21, 2004, 05:28 PM

no.... smart enabled is just being supported.... and running.. you need a utility in windows to view in the smart information... or i think the Maxtor maxblast startup disk has a SMART information thingy on it.... i couldn't tell you what to get... i've not ran one yet

dipstick · Jul 21, 2004, 07:27 PM

Maybe this is what you're looking for?
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...&downloadID=22

Jul 19, 2004, 09:07 PM	#1
Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	CPU upgrade = corrupt harddisks Hello all, I have a rather weird problem! I've tried everything i know, and nothing seems to work! so i hope any of you can advice me! First my system specs: (yes its old) AMD 900MHZ, 512 MB SDram 133MHz, yetway MB v2266B, NVIDIA G-force 4 MX440 DDR 64MB, 1x Maxtor 40GB @7200rpm, 1x Maxtor 80GB (brand new), Pinnacle PCTV card, Soundblaster 5.1 L!ve, 1x dvd-rom, 1x cd-rw, 2x nic Problem: I got a AMD 1600+ CPU for free, and when i put it into my pc, i booted up windows normally. Everything went fine. Then i rebooted, and at boot it said: Data corrupt or missing, press ctrl+alt+del to reboot. So i took the HDD and tried to checkdisk it in a other winXP machine. But the checkdisk simply wouldnt run. Then i took my old 10GB harddrive, put it in the pc, and setup windows correctly on it, without error/crashing. Then i connected my 40GB next to it again, and windows suddenly wanted to check the drive at start-up, so it did, it fixed loads of errors, and then booted windows. I rebooted, and then to find out my partitions where gone! I tried to recover them with "Agronise recovery expert", but it couldnt find my partitions. At that point i put it a 3rd drive, the 80GB and i started data recovery from the 40Gb, and recoverd all my files. I disconnect the 10GB drive, the 80GB drive, and start up my pc in dos mode, and Fdisk'ed the drive again, rebooted, formatted partition, reboot, start winXP install. Then i got option to format my drive as FAT32 or NTFS, i chose NTFS, at 20% it gave message "Harddrive corrupt". Everything i tried to fix that, but nothing seem to work, not even a low-level format of the drive. So i take the good drive (80GB) and put it in, and as soon as i try setup windows, it gave me again message harddrive corrupt, and my next drive was damaged as it looked like... So i desided to take back the 1600+ out of my system, and replace it again with the 900MHz. Then i could normally partition the hard disk, and setup windows! But because the 80GB was also currupt before, i tried to connect the 40GB again for datarecovery once more... But at that point windows simply didnt want to run. It would just give you a black screen at boot. So i disconnected the 40GB hard drive, tried boot again, and now again i get to see on the 80GB this time: Data corrupt or files missing, press ctrl+alt+del to reboot. so now the 40GB, and the 80GB drives are currupt, and i am now running on the 10GB drive. But as soon as i wanna connect 1 of the 2 corrupt drives, windows wont load again. Now the next weird thing, all partition didnt work, trying setup winXP, win2k, win98, nothing worked. But then i tried Linux SUSE 8.0, and it worked without a problem! It had no problems making partitions what so ever, and no problems at all with reading/wrinting on the disk. After i saw that, i tried re-partition again to NTFS, and again message data corrupt. Any one has any glue what is going on here?? I also tried a bios upgrade, nothing seems to work! Any advice would be more then welcome Greets SaintK

Jul 20, 2004, 10:35 PM	#3
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	LLF is no fun, but often a last resort(i have a 320 GB RAID Array and it took me 20 some odd hours) but yes..make sure you have the latest BIOS and that the 1600 is supported, and also if your board has a PCI/AGP lock, enable it at 33MHz

Jul 21, 2004, 06:00 AM	Thread Starter #5
Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	ive done llf with maxtor utility, thanks for reply's, will see this afternoon if it can help me any further

Jul 21, 2004, 11:32 AM	Thread Starter #7
Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	hwta is such a smart utility ? And what does SMART do?

Jul 21, 2004, 04:49 PM	#8
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	I had a similar problem with corrupt files and windows freezing and such on one of my hds just recently. Even formatting would stick at about 65% for hours. I had to resort to a low level format that seemed to have done the trick. Also a good thing to check is to make sure all the pins are still on the drive. I've seen some come off with some ata cables and although they still worked they would corrupt and give problems. Also SMART is a diagnostic tool which constantly keeps an eye on the hard drives and reports if there are or will be any probs. It slows things down a bit but it is helpful in situations like yours. If the HD supports it, you can enable it in the bios

Jul 21, 2004, 04:56 PM	Thread Starter #9
Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	So i have SMART enabled in the bios, but that aint the tool is it?

Jul 21, 2004, 07:27 PM	#11
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Maybe this is what you're looking for? http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...&downloadID=22