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Just curious, does the hard drive still show up as a 160 GB drive? If you go in to FDisk does show your partition?
The drive still shows up as a 160gig drive in the bios and several of the partition tools. It does not show up as a NTFS partition. Something weird that I didn't write down as I was in a rush... something like QXD? I can doublecheck.
When I boot using the windows 2000 server disk and go to the recovery console... it drops me at a prompt. It can't display the directory structure. Again, another weird error that I didn't write down as I was in a rush. I'll go back and get that info though.
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Originally posted here by morganlefay
[B]Just thoughts
cause I have had that happen...where the drive\partition just died. NT 4 server SBS 4.5..and couldnt recover the drive at all....thank god for a mirror and backups :)
I have a backup and just used that as a place to download and then archived to other drives.
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No warnings or issues...like slowdowns? read write errors? IO errors?
No slowdowns or errors. I check the logs on a regualar basis and I have SNMP running and reporting using solarwinds engineer edition.
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is it just defective...we had 2 new maxtors fail within one year?
Could be... but none of the hard disk utilities show anything wrong with the drive itself, just the partition.
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It is strange that you can access the other partition...so maybe the drive isnt defective??
I can access the other drives from bootdisks... not from the defective drive itself.
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Not the controller...
Don't think so either, because I can access the other drives fine.
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bad cable connection
I've taken the drive out and connected it to another box using different cables, and still can't access it. So, that tells me the cable is fine.
I have 2 surge protectors and a backup battery... so I don't think so. Unless the spike happened from within the PC... but that would affect more than one device? The tower and PSU is new too... only 3 months old. It is an antec case and PSU which get really good ratings.
http://www.antec.com/pdf/flyers/SONATA.pdf
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Could it have filled up???
It is a 160gb drive before formatting. I only had about 30gigs worth of data on there at the time of failure.
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Rogue process gone array I have seen a wins database corruption
where it created hundreds of log files....and the system drive was filling up fast?
I suppose this is possible... but I was remotely connected to it and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Everything was working properly as far as I know. I can't get to the system logs to find out and I didn't log that to a syslog server... actaully.. that was also my syslog server for other network devices... But... if that were the case, I should still be able to access the partition from a boot cd using a ramdisk and access/delete files?
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Maybe a temp directory that is used by the backup...never cleared itself?
I do manual backups and no backup software is used. I just store everything on external usb drives.
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And I have seen an index in an old database corrupt and start growing....
Indexing service was running. The install was only about 3 months old. I had gotten new hardware and was getting all kinds of errors and had to reinstall.
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I never did find out what caused the crash...now I run hardware raid.. on that machine
:D
I suspect that I'll never figure this problem out either. I don't have the resources to run a hardware raid... its just a home server... however I do use it for a lot. domain controller, syslog server, dns server, wus server, file server, etc. I know its not good to run all those services on one server but it is only for a couple of boxes.
Thanks for the thoughts/suggestions. I'm going to play more tonight. I had class yesterday night and had very little time to play with it. I'm going to see if I can dig up any more info. There are tons of tools on that CD I have an I only used about 5 of them.
http://62.253.162.19/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html (Not really legal...)
