Hewllo. Try putting the drive in another computer and see if that happens
again. I am not an axpert on drives either, but give it a try.
"Rick" <> wrote in message
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> PC: Micron Transport GX+ notebook, fairly new model when purchased in
> 11/00. Pentium 700, Memory 320MB.
> BIOS: Latest Phoenix BIOS, 11/03.
> OS: Win 98SE
> My computer literacy: Somewhat.
>
> Background:
> My pc has had a 30gb IDE main hard drive, plus another 30gb drive in
> the options bay. (Performance of the latter was always very sluggish,
> although I doubt that was due to the drive itself). Both hdds were
> Hitachi/IBM. The second drive seemed to be going bad over the last
> few months -- often the system wouldn't even recognize it until
> several reboots, and I would hear clacking noises at times. Since I
> thought this was likely due to the pc "roughing up" the drive in that
> bay, I decided to eliminate it, stop using a secondary hdd, and
> instead replace the main 30gb hdd with an 80gb Hitachi.
>
> A few years ago Micron (now MPC) support told me the pc could not
> handle hdd's greater than 30 (or maybe it was 40gb). But about a year
> ago a salesperson at MPC insisted that this was incorrect, and that I
> had been told that simply because 30 or 40gb was the largest drive
> size available when the system was being sold. She told me she
> double-checked this with tech support and was assured the system could
> indeed handle much larger drives.
>
> The Issue (a strange one):
> So anyway, using Drive Image 5.0 I created a clone of my original
> primary drive onto nthe new 80gb hdd, again all as one partition
> (which means I had Drive Image expand the approx 30gb C partition to
> approx 80gb.) Went without a hitch. The BIOS conformed the drive as
> 80 gb.
>
> Then I started adding data to the new 80 gb hard drive (on top of the
> approx 24 gb of data I had transferred over via the Drive Image copy).
> But when I got to about 45 gb of data -- ie., added about 21 gb (not
> all at once, BTW) -- Windows Explorer said something to the effect of
> "drive full, please delete some files". And then -- here's the kicker
> -- when I clicked "OK", the system crashed, and upon reboot I was left
> with a completely data-less, UNFORMATTED disk. Norton Disk Doctor
> rescue disk could recognize no data, and was able to do nothing. I
> was left with a start from scratch proposition (fortunately I had the
> old disk as a backup).
>
> Several more tries, same result! I even tried dividing the new disk
> into three partions < 30 gb each in case there was some sort of
> partition size issue, but with the exact same result. I also tried
> using Drive Image to copy over the data from the old secondary drive
> as a full partition -- rather than simply copying via Windows Explorer
> -- but here Drive Image would get about 50-70% through the copy
> process, say "Disk Read Error" and stop.and the result would be the
> same: new main drive instantly and completely wiped out
>
> I'm no expert on hard drives, but there are really two questions here
> -- Why am I reaching the capacity issue, and
> -- Even more troubling.assuming some pc component or some relevant
> software
> really DOES have a capacity limitation of 40-50gb, should
> hitting
> this maximum capacity instantly nuke all data and formatting????
> Could
> the new 80gb HDD be bad? If so, how can I tell?
>
> Would greatly appreciate any ideas, suggestions. For now, I've just
> gone back to the 30gb main drive (and archived what was on the
> secondary to external storage), because I can't take a chance on
> losing everything
> whenever I reach some apparent limit ofsomewhere between 40-50 gb on
> the new 80 gb hdd.
>
> BTW, there's no evidence whatsoever of a virus.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick
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