Hard Drive Always Corrupted

MadMaxData · 01 Apr 2010

Anyway, MaxBlast repaired a dead Maxtor HDD when everything else failed. So I use it exclusively for repairing bad sectors now. It never fails. However, you might have to have at least one SeaGate, or Maxtor drive installed to be able to use it, I can't remember. My service PC always has at least one SeaGate in it, so I'm not sure.

whs · 01 Apr 2010

MadMaxData said:

Anyway, MaxBlast repaired a dead Maxtor HDD when everything else failed. So I use it exclusively for repairing bad sectors now. It never fails. However, you might have to have at least one SeaGate, or Maxtor drive installed to be able to use it, I can't remember. My service PC always has at least one SeaGate in it, so I'm not sure.

That's good to know and I have both Maxtor and Seagate disks. Will have to read their PDF - tomorrow.

MadMaxData · 01 Apr 2010

whs said:

That's good to know and I have both Maxtor and Seagate disks. Will have to read their PDF - tomorrow.

I swear by both [SeaGate bought out Maxtor anyway]. And I won't purchase anything but SeaGate. Only one hard drive failure in around 15 years, and that was my own fault, not the HDD.

If you visit any sites that actually do data recovery on bad drives, that's where you get the real skinny on the best drives to purchase. Stay away from the new generation of Hitachi's. They are using porcelin on the platters now, and the dust from it sticks to the heads. Their junk. I've heard that the 11th generation SeaGate Barracuda's have firmware issues with their SATA drives, so that's the only SeaGate to steer clear of. I have an 11th generation IDE ATA Barracuda, and it's been working great for a few years.

4m4z1ng · 02 Apr 2010

Ermmm... I DID use WUBI once, and that did some bad things, like fake partitions and such, but I thought those should have been gotten rid of by now. Checking the /Videos folder specifically now.

4m4z1ng · 02 Apr 2010

Ermmm... Got this result.

Code:

Scan started at: 02/04/2010 01:55:03
Start Path  : C:\Users\Bill\Videos

Invalid Start Path!
Scan Completed at: 02/04/2010 01:55:03
Errors Reported:  1
Scanned  0 Folders,  0 Files,  0 Mbytes
Time: 1 sec,  Avg. Speed: 0 K/sec.

Not really sure what to make of it, except that Windows doesn't think \Videos is an OK folder?

MadMaxData · 02 Apr 2010

Have you tried using a different cable on your hard drive yet? I'm almost positive this is a hard drive issue. That's the most common problem when files appear to be corrupted, is a bad cable. Happens all the time.

4m4z1ng · 02 Apr 2010

It's an internal HD on a laptop.

4m4z1ng · 02 Apr 2010

running

Code:

chkdsk /f /r C:

, will check again in morning

4m4z1ng · 02 Apr 2010

Got these errors in FCCheck

Code:

Scan started at: 02/04/2010 11:39:39
Start Path : C:\Users\Bill
Buffer size : 262144

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\(null)
00000005 : Access is denied.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Archived History
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\data_0
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\data_1
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\data_2
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\data_3
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\index
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cookies
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Current Session
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Current Tabs
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History Index 2010-01
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History Index 2010-02
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History Index 2010-03
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History Index 2010-04
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History-journal
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage\http_www.chess.com_0.localstorage
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data\Google Gears\localserver.db
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data\Google Gears\permissions.db
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Thumbnails
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Thumbnails-journal
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Visited Links
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data
00000020 : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\(null)
00000005 : Access is denied.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\IconCache.db
00000002 : The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\Microsoft Corporation
00000002 : The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\rx_image32.Cache
00000002 : The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\rx_image32.Cache
C:\Users\Bill\AppData\Local\Application Data\History\rx_image32.Cache
00000002 : The system cannot find the file specified.