On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Eric Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, see
> what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used computer off
> ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some head slap in
> shipping. That is why I think lots of drive activity causing the existing
> problem to show up makes sense.
>
> One more thing...THANK GOD for BackupPC! Awesome software! I appreciate
> deeply that I have a set of critical files ready to be restored on the new
> drive. Thanks Craig (and whoever else) for doing this project.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
just to play devil's advocate here, you could also be looking at a bad
chipset. I cant recall if you said it was SATA or IDE but heat buildup in
the case or a dislodged heatsink on some chipsets can lead to disk
corruption. Consider looking in the case after the system has been running
for a while, is the chipset hot? Is it too cool? If it is too hot you may
just need to add a fan. If it is too cool your heatsink may not be
attatched properly. Also, power fluctuations in the power supply can lead
to disk corruption.
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