sprins
July 21st, 2004, 05:16 PM
Hello, about 3-6 months ago my Maxtor 13.5 GB hard drive crashed. I purchased two new Maxtor 20 GB drives, one as primary the other as secondary. The secondary was divided into two partitions, one with Windows, the other LINUX. I first installed Windows, my apps, and my data files on my secondary so if my first hard drive crashed again, I could make my secondary my primary and be up and running quickly.
Prior to booting up to Windows on my primary, it first asked me if I wanted to go to LINUX or Windows. Everything worked fine for a few months, but then I began getting errors and had to reinstall Windows on my original hard drive. I also reinstalled LINUX to setup the boot record again. However, a few weeks went by and I had to reinstall Windows again. However, before I had time to fix my primary, my secondary began having problems and also required a reinstall. Shortly after I had both up and running, my first went down. It went down twice in one week (with me running the windows install both times), ran for about a week and a half, and I had to reinstall again last Saturday. On Tuesday, it was down again, this time with File Allocation Table error. I ran my secondary for a short time, but it also went down. Both now need to be reformatted. Fortunately, I had another smaller drive in another PC set this up as my primary and my original as secondary and was able to read my original hard drive and copy the data files to my smaller hard drive, so I did not lose my data (WHEW!!). Over this time, I first thought it was a communications program, as I had problems with this, but eventorually everything went down. The next time I installed and had problems, it acted like McAfee was the problem. So I reinstalled without McAfee and also without my secondary, so I only had my primary and no McAfee. Still it has been crashing, with a variety of errors, ranging from Invalid Page faults from Explorer and Kernal 32 to missing a vxd file to registry errors to having invalid lonf filename to my most recent, File allocation table errors. Any ideas as to what this might be? thanks
Prior to booting up to Windows on my primary, it first asked me if I wanted to go to LINUX or Windows. Everything worked fine for a few months, but then I began getting errors and had to reinstall Windows on my original hard drive. I also reinstalled LINUX to setup the boot record again. However, a few weeks went by and I had to reinstall Windows again. However, before I had time to fix my primary, my secondary began having problems and also required a reinstall. Shortly after I had both up and running, my first went down. It went down twice in one week (with me running the windows install both times), ran for about a week and a half, and I had to reinstall again last Saturday. On Tuesday, it was down again, this time with File Allocation Table error. I ran my secondary for a short time, but it also went down. Both now need to be reformatted. Fortunately, I had another smaller drive in another PC set this up as my primary and my original as secondary and was able to read my original hard drive and copy the data files to my smaller hard drive, so I did not lose my data (WHEW!!). Over this time, I first thought it was a communications program, as I had problems with this, but eventorually everything went down. The next time I installed and had problems, it acted like McAfee was the problem. So I reinstalled without McAfee and also without my secondary, so I only had my primary and no McAfee. Still it has been crashing, with a variety of errors, ranging from Invalid Page faults from Explorer and Kernal 32 to missing a vxd file to registry errors to having invalid lonf filename to my most recent, File allocation table errors. Any ideas as to what this might be? thanks