screwed up disk?

[arima]

OMG
one day my system just restarted cause apparently my swap disk fell out..
after shutting down and starting up again.. it appeared.. but this time.. a little different..

check out disk 1

have any of you experienced this problem?

 

[sturm]

Change it back to where you want it. Windows probably defaulted to the first drive when it lost the drive you had it on.

 

[sailer]

I have. I just renamed all the drives and put them back in the original order. It only takes a few minutes There were warnings that changing the drive letters might make something inaccessible, but I ignored them and everything worked fine when I was finished.

 

[nukemaster]

WOW. did you travel to the future to get a drive with that capacity?

I would backup what ever you can and do some scans with the manufacturers software. if that passes, reformat and partition it.

This could be a glitch, but its good to play it safe and back it up and do some scans....

 

[arima]

haha yea.. my disk went into the future and back.
yeah it has to be a glitch.. it's not like i mind having a petabyte to play around with either

 

[nukemaster]

did you manage to get your data off that drive and get it down to size again?

 

[arima]

mm i did a full chkdisk on it but it still appears as shown
it's fully usable though.. SMART data is intact too apparently.
wait no.. it's missing alot of data.. but the drive is still working as per normal.
It fails WD diagnostics at the first test.
Maybe something on the board responsible for keeping tabs on the drive fried?

 

[nukemaster]

if it fails the test, its time to rma it...get what ever files you can get off of it and send it in for replacement.

chkdsk is mostly for a file system check. there is a switch to make it do a bad sector scan, but if it fails WDC's test. its toast.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/prork/pref_tts_ffgh.mspx?mfr=true

 

[arima]

cool. thanks for the advice. warranty's probably expired.. just gonna throw it out the window or make it some novelty object. BEHOLD.. THE 1PB DRIVE!!

 

[nukemaster]

when you said "apparently my swap disk fell out". did it actually fall? that will do it to you...