Drive Corruption - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II

[m0dm0]

Hi,

- I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache drive the other week and fitted it in my PC.
- I have a 200GB Western digital SATA drive on which XP is running and under which I used Disk Management to initialise and make the 500GB drive into two partitions of sizes and 400GB and 100GB both NTFS.

The problem ...




This is happening to random files and folders it seems!

Help! I've moved a lot of important data onto this new drive!

Thanks

[threepe]

Go to Seagate's site, search out their drive diagnostics utility and check it. The drive may be having issues and need to be changed.

Failing that, it could be an issue with your SATA controller/driver. Clearly things have been working OK with your old drive. Its just that sometimes when you add an extra drive to a system it can bring out strange issue with drive controllers.

[Max Tractor]

Run a diag on the drive, use either seatools(seagate util) or another good free program HD Tune, I would have a guess at reallocated sector count, might be the problem