Hi guys Ok, I've been shoving bits in and out of computers pretty much my entire life and never really had any Hard drive problems (lucky me ) and have always used seagates, maxtors and WD with no real preference between brands, esp since different gen drives behave differently with all makes. So recently i went and got my first 'Large' WD drive (last one was a 2 gig caviar I had in '98) After seeing loads of favourable reviews and comments I got a 250 gig WD2500JB PATA drive with 8MB cache. It's a star.... deathly silent and not too hot (esp compared to 120gig Maxtor DM9 PATA) Last night I moved a bunch of files around from one drive to this one and all was well. today i came to it and 'doze reckons it's not formatted any more and has the drive label 'New Volume' I started running GetDataBack on it and the info seems to all be there, but it seems the index is corrupted or something. there's nothing vital on the drive and stuff i really want i can probably retrieve so that's not a problem (just a headache! ) What I'd like to know is if anyone has any idea as to what may have happened to it? I should be able to RMA it, but the drive currently 'appears' healthy so WD may decide there's no fault with it and i'll be out of pocket on the carriage charges and have a rather expensive paperweight (cos i now don't trust the drive...) BTW, the WD diagnostic was about as useful as a choclate teapot as it now doesn't do any diags, just reports a bit of info and sets up new drives. I've seen SMART tools mentioned but never seen any (BIOS showed SMART ok anyway...) If anybody has any ideas I'd be really greatful. Ta Al
Ok I found the problem... I hadn't enabled large drive support on that machine and I guess once i went over 137gig it decided to ditch the partition table. hopefully GDB or something will be able to restore it
