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I have a windows 7 x64 PC, with a 500 GB hard disk drive.
I got a new 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003-1CH162 SATA Hard Disk some 2-3 months ago.
I created two partitions on it (800 GB + 130 GB) and stored my data in them. It was working very well, and till here no problem.
But, one day I noticed that an important file of mine is not opening, and then I noticed that its size has turned down to 0 KB. That was a shock..! Around that time, it was like whenever I accessed that hard disk, my computer suddenly froze. Icons disappeared, explorer.exe stopped responding, but I could still move the open windows around here and there or open the start menu. After few minutes, computer starts responding again, and I could access contents on disk and again it would hang after few seconds.
Then I searched for all the 0 KB sized (empty) files on that partition, and alas... many of my important as well other non-important files came listed down in the search results. There were videos, pictures, pdf files, text documents, .bin, .xml, .html, .exe files among many others.
I noticed that some selected files were corrupted from some selected folders at random locations in that partition only, not on the other.
Please someone tell me what's going on with my PC.
Is there a method to recover the lost files?
I have copied all the contents of that disk into my older hard disk, to prevent the remaining files from being damaged.
I have run checkdisk and there are no errors.
It's SMART status is OK.
Will full formatting the disk correct the problem?
The hard disk is in warranty, should I get it replaced?
Thank you in advanced !!
I got a new 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003-1CH162 SATA Hard Disk some 2-3 months ago.
I created two partitions on it (800 GB + 130 GB) and stored my data in them. It was working very well, and till here no problem.
But, one day I noticed that an important file of mine is not opening, and then I noticed that its size has turned down to 0 KB. That was a shock..! Around that time, it was like whenever I accessed that hard disk, my computer suddenly froze. Icons disappeared, explorer.exe stopped responding, but I could still move the open windows around here and there or open the start menu. After few minutes, computer starts responding again, and I could access contents on disk and again it would hang after few seconds.
Then I searched for all the 0 KB sized (empty) files on that partition, and alas... many of my important as well other non-important files came listed down in the search results. There were videos, pictures, pdf files, text documents, .bin, .xml, .html, .exe files among many others.
I noticed that some selected files were corrupted from some selected folders at random locations in that partition only, not on the other.
Please someone tell me what's going on with my PC.
Is there a method to recover the lost files?
I have copied all the contents of that disk into my older hard disk, to prevent the remaining files from being damaged.
I have run checkdisk and there are no errors.
It's SMART status is OK.
Will full formatting the disk correct the problem?
The hard disk is in warranty, should I get it replaced?
Thank you in advanced !!
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