Strange Corruption

[Knacko]

My storage drive (Samsung SpinPoint P120) randomly decided to corrupt on itself and I don't think it knows what it's doing.

I was playing CoD2 and when I exited the program, Windows notifies me that the F: drive is corrupt. I try to open it in Explorer, but only one jpeg file is on it. The space used in Explorer still seems right (~170GB used). I restart to let chkdsk look at it and it corrects a few index files, but others it says 'insufficent disk space', and then quits due to an unspecified error.

When Windows starts up again, I can now see 4 folders and a few random files. I try chkdsk again, but it still gives the same errors as before and quits. No new files/folders appear in Explorer.

The Samsung diagnostic tools also show there are no errors on the drive.

I would try to ghost it, but I don't have any other drives large enough to ghost it onto. Any other suggestions?

Edit: It's only about a month old

[soulfly1448]

Windows done jacked somethin up on ya. Now, is the F: drive your storage drive and you have Windows on another drive? If so, you could try reinstalling windows on the other drive to see if your data shows back up.

Or, you can try a data recovery program such as Easy Recovery Pro. It rawks. I used it when I accidently deleted an entire folder with all of my music, vids and progs I had collected over the years. Terrible!

[Knacko]

Well, the drive has gone completely corrupt since, so I doubt I can install Windows on it. I'm having a bit of success with a recovery program though. It found a few folders (ones that I could care less if they were deleted) right off the bat and I'm running a cluster-by-cluster scan to see if I can find some more. If that doesn't work, I'll try ghosting it to another drive. From there, its format the drive, then RMA if that doesn't work.

[Knacko]

WOW, that was a huge headache. I couldn't find a drive to ghost my drive onto, so I just decided to format it. Neither Windows or PartitionMagic would format the drive due to unspecified errors, so I tried it with the Samsung diagnostic tools.

The format took ~3.5 hours to complete. Booted up into Windows, and I couldn't find the drive. Nowhere to be found. It would show up in the device manager, but could not access it at all. I first thought it was the drivers. I found the drivers and tried to update them. I see an error:

"Could not intalize InstallShield wizard...." (Something along those lines)

I search the problem up on Google, it redirects me to InstallShield's website and I find the proper file to correct the problem. I go to then install it, I get another error message:

"Could not extend F:/" Then the installation of the installation program crashes.

I did manage to open it up in device manager, populate the drive and use PartitionMagic to create the partition. Everything is working good now, but what a headache its been.