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I Supported Toymods
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melbourne.vic.au
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 IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Mon, 15 November 2004 21:54
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Hey All,
I don't know if any IT people have come across it but has anyone have a whole 160GB HDD (Serial ATA) completely go empty. We have Windows 2000 SOE with NTFS and it doesn't explain why the whole hard disk contents disappear. We use GetBackNTFS Trial and it can see all the files  .
Is it a flaw with the technology that it folds all the time as this is the 5th reported case (3rd time I have dealt with this)... This time its critical data I am trying to back up.
Is this a separated incident? Or has it happened elsewhere?
Cheers.
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Sydney / NSW
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March 2004
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Mon, 15 November 2004 22:12
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it sounds like you have a corrupt file allocation table. FAT. you maybe able to recover it depending on how careful you are. take it to a PC guru.
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Newcastle
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July 2003
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.vic.au
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Mon, 15 November 2004 23:35
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The PC at fault is an Intel 865GLC motherboards with Samsung SP1614C 160GB Serial ATA Hard Disks .
Cheers.
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Mon, 15 November 2004 23:46
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samsung hd could be half your problem. hate to say it but they are terrible. we refuse to sell them just becasue of the problems weve had with them in the past. samsung on their site will have a tester, grab it and it'll make a floppy disk for you to boot off and run that though it, see what happens but if the file system has died a ciouple of times id imagine there is a good chance of something being sutffed with the drive.
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I supported Toymods
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Sutho/Hills NSW
Registered:
September 2002
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Newcastle
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July 2003
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 00:10
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| EvilJack wrote on Tue, 16 November 2004 10:59 |
the SATA hdd's using nvidia or via chipset?
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obviously neither, he said its running an intel 865,
exactly which board is it ?
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Sydney / NSW
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March 2004
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 00:11
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u can set it up as a secondary drive with a new hard disk as your primary. and copy all the info back onto ur primary and use the samsung as a paper weight. that may work
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.vic.au
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 00:18
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Toof,
I work in an environment where the staff gets Administrator Rights so all is good.
It's just frustrating that there have been similar instances all over the place on different locations (sites).
Oh Well... back to rebuilidng/installing a machine I go 
Cheers.
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Newcastle
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July 2003
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 00:29
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it isnt a matter of preventing your staff from having admin rights, im not suggesting that you should do this to prevent your staff or another user from performing a malicious act. more having admin privs. will *Allow* that user to do it. now often the user dosent indend to do somehting damaging but though the course of copping viruses,adware,spyware etc many of these thingws can only install or casue damaging effects when given admin privledges, so if the user only logs into an admin account when they need to change somehting or install software it often prevents many problems before they arrise.
are all your mahcines provided by the same supplier ... ? ie all contain samsung hd's ? casue really as warrior says they are best used as a paperweight.
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u can set it up as a secondary drive with a new hard disk as your primary. and copy all the info back onto ur primary
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if the FS is stuffed then the new install of windows on the new drive wont be able to read the old drive anyway, youll need a tool that will either try to rebuild the file system (risky) or a tool that reads the disk in RAW format, this will be able to read the disk without needing the FS intact (Ontrack does a tops job but costs the earth, i figure if you have important data on there they think they can just bend you over)
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I Supported Toymods
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melbourne.vic.au
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May 2002
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 00:32
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| warrior wrote on Tue, 16 November 2004 11:11 |
u can set it up as a secondary drive with a new hard disk as your primary. and copy all the info back onto ur primary and use the samsung as a paper weight. that may work
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Thought of that though 160GB as a paper weight is a bit excessive. Anyway, using GetBackData for NTFS seems to be working but see how we go...
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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May 2002
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 01:18
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I've only once used a Samsung drive...and it was DOA. Not a good start.
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne.vic.au
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May 2002
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Tue, 16 November 2004 05:05
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| toof wrote on Tue, 16 November 2004 11:10 |
...exactly which board is it ?
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It's an Intel 856GLC. I just flashed it to the newer bios and see how it goes  If the PC HDD dies after 2 months I don't really mind coz my contract expires shortly anyway
Cheers all for the input.
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Re: IT Problem ~ Serial Hard Disks (Stuffed)
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Wed, 17 November 2004 09:49
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ahh a genuine intel board *shudder*
antoher product we bluntly refuse to sell. good quality boards but such a hassle as far as hardware compatability and general usability. gigabyte or asus all the way.
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