Hard Drive problems

[Rªdì¢âl_£Ð]

A sumation of what is going on:
http://home.comcast.net/~rogue6/drive_error.jpg

So far, I ran check disc several times, converted it to NTFS and ran check disc again, and attempted for force Ghost it to another drive which ended up being slightly smaller. Then installed R-Studio and I have been running it for the past three weeks with little progress. From what I can tell with initial runs, R-Studio is picking up the files I lost. I would like to know if there is any way to make this run faster or another faster option.

[ipodman]

Hi,

Well just try running a virus scan and an anti-spy wearer on the affected area.

[Stealth]

Sounds like a slack space problem to me. I don't know what kinds of files you have in there, but any file that would normally take less than 4 kB of space takes up the whole amount, it'll use up exactly 4 kB and won't allow any other file (or file chunk) to use the same space, even though they could probably both fit insidethe same cluster. It's the file system's fault, both with FAT32 and NTFS. (4 kB is the cluster size with NTFS, FAT32 is even worse, having 32 kB per cluster).

Run an antivirus. Regardless of the result, run chkdsk in surface scan mode. Again, no matter what the result of this is, run a defragmenter. It might help a bit, but if you have zounds of small files inside (checksum files tend to be annoying, being only a couple hundred bytes in size), you're gonna keep losing space to the slack. If you can afford, offload some of the content onto DVDs as they never suffer from slack space.

[Rªdì¢âl_£Ð]

This hard drive contains anime, music, and manga scans. 80% of the anime folders (not files) went missing and all of the music and mangas are missing as well. This hard drive was a part of my dual booting desktop where I primarily used Linux. Actually, because of my odd partitioning tables on the master drive (this one is a slave), Windows never worked after installing Linux. So, this is not a problem caused by viruses. Also, all of the files are at least 50MB in size. From what I can tell, this is either a hardware problem (since this is a Maxtor and this isn't the first time that this drive died) or a problem with the FAT32 filesystem.

[a1whs.com]

Well when you were downloading torrent files one of them never finished downloading to fullest and kept reserving diskspace for that file, so thats probably the reason. Just copy the important files to some other location and do format of the hdd if you want it to work or find out which torrent stopped to download and still thinking its been downloaded.

[Stealth]

That's also a possibility. IIRC, most torrent clients tend to allocate ("lock up") space before actually filling it with downloaded data. Although, truth be told, I'm not sure it would give an effect like this.