@doctorq
If it's the second time this has happend, why would you continue using it? I wouldn't. It just ends out with your main drive going bust someday, and in the meantime your backup drive has done it as well.
Yes, i also suspect a hardware malfunction but it since both HDs are of the same brand, (slightly different model) the main drive should have gone first as it is at constant usage, not the other one which is rarely used.
But you never know with these things. :-)
@motorollin
Sounds like a bad sector on the disk. I would replace the hard disk.
I just checked it 3 times by using the function "check drive" from HDInstTools and it didn't gave me errors. Thus, unless it is not reliable, this is not the case.
@homer
You can verify the hard disk by downloading (free !) the manufacturers "Disk Fitness Test" (DFT) software, and connecting the drive to a pc. That will tell you if the manufacturer thinks its a drive problem. Note that you have to get the specific software for that type of drive. Most DFT software comes as a self booting floppy, but some now work through windoze.
I don't have a pc at hand currently.
@Merc
It sounds to me more like you have a bad cable, or the connector on the drive has a bad connection to the logic board.. the manufacturer information is (AFAIK) stored on the board and shouldn't ever be corrupted no matter how many bad sectors the drive has. Make sure your cabling is intact.
When this problem occured, i checked the secondary IDE cable and the connector of the HD and it looked like it had developed some sort of rust on it. After i cleaned it up it still could not see my partitions and the HD string remained corrupted. So, i'm not sure..
About the manufacturer information, CLS2086 says that it is stored on an EEPROM. Thus it is not impossible to become corrupted somehow.
Now, i have reconfigured the drive and it sees the new partitions ok, so far.
@CLS2086
Hi,
corrupt name and references with HDDToolbox ?
Yes.
look at the connectors pins if they are ok.
That is very likely to be the case. Although i cleaned it up as i said above, i suspect that the secondary IDE cable is starting to playing up from the many clumsy pulls and plugs (Replacing Backup HD with CD drive etc)
I never do that with the primary cable.
EDIT: Duh, sorry my bad. By connector pins you mean the pins of the chips in the circuit at the bottom of the HD. Yeah they all look ok.
It could be that because name and specs are on EEPROM, or the electronic on the hdd is dying.
I see.
Try to find the same and exchange the circuit to get back your data.
Too late, i have already repartitioned it. I better buy a new drive and perhaps a new ide cable.
Out of curiosity, where the information about partitions is stored to a HD? In the RDB?