Just formatted HDD, but its corrupt already?

[gik0geck0]

Earlier, anything that i put, or was recently there on my WDC 500gb was claimed to be corrupt. Thankfully, my Music and videos were not corrupt. So i moved them else where, and reformatted the drive. Things seemed to be ok... But now anything new i put there is corrupt again. What could be wrong, and how can it be fixed? If all else fails, im pretty sure the HDD is within warranty, and I will just go return it and get a new one. Or should I just start with that?

 

[RetiredChief]

I would download WD utility disk and check your HDD. It should ether fix, or identify that your drive is failing.

Outside chance - Run orthos or prime 95 to verify your memory is OK, or use a bootable CD with memtest95 and check memory. As I said outside chance as memmory errors show up as program problems and Blue screens

 

[gik0geck0]

Thanks for replying. I downloaded the WD Data lifehuard Diagnostics from the WD site, and according to their SMART drive test, the drive is fine.... Also, it cannot be any memory problems... Because i have 3 other HDDs that are all completely fine.

 

[Ijack]

Would it be of interest for you to tell us what OS you are using, how you have the drive partitioned, little details like that?

 

[gik0geck0]

I am currently running Vista Ultimate x64. the partition is 465.76 Gb big, formatted using the computer management program in the O/S. NTSF file system. Could compressing the disk be causing the problems? Because i have it set to compress all the files.

 

[Ijack]

I wouldn't have thought that compression was the problem. That's always been very reliable for me on NTFS. I am a bit surprised that you feel the need on a 500GB disk.

Are you sure that your BIOS is recognizing the disk correctly? Are your other HDs that big, or are they smaller? When you say the files are corrupt, do you get an error message or is it just that the contents look different?

 

[gik0geck0]

BIOS recognizes it just like any other drive. I also have a 250gb, an 80gb, and my 160gb which is divided into 2 partitions. If it makes any difference, all of my drives are from WD, except the 250, which is from Maxtor, and is also IDE. But i doubt that really changes anything. Really, im not sure if compression IS the problem.... a while back, i tried to compress my C drive, which completely failed, causing the boot file for windows to stop working. So i suppose based off of that, windows could have a corrupt compression system or something.

 

[snotling]

Vista's installer does Quick format only, so CHKDSK /F /R /X after the installation to find bad sectors...

If this is your system drive, bad RAM will corupt it first because of the swap file. So you might not see coruption on other drives because they are not used as much.