HELP!!
Don't even know where to begin with this one! ok basically.
SETUP
2.8Ghz Pentium 4
gig of DDR Ram
2 x 160Gb hard drives
PROBLEM:
The hard drives are partitions up as follows. Drive 1 has a 10 gig windows partition and the rest is for stuff and drive 2 is split at 80 gigs into 2 partitions.
Whenever I copy any data over anywhere the computer restarts and windows is no longer there. sometimes but not every time the partitions will also get wiped. At first I thought it was the hard drive so i got a new one. hence why i have 2! but it still did it so i thought it must be the motherboard so i got a new motherboard. This seemed to cure the problem and nothing happened for a couple of months, until just now! I turned on my computer and the second hard drive was completely blank, no partitions or anything. then i formatted it and copyed some of my backed up data over and the computer restarted with no indication and when it tried to boot up it couldn't because windows wasn't there!!!
whats going on!! I can't think of anything.
I did a memory test on the ram and it seemed ok. i did a cpu test and left it on overload for 6 hours but it was ok then too. I just have no idea whats up.
any help would be very greatfully recieved!!
PS its not a virus as both drives have been formatted and virus scanned!
thanks a lot
Don't even know where to begin with this one! ok basically.
SETUP
2.8Ghz Pentium 4
gig of DDR Ram
2 x 160Gb hard drives
PROBLEM:
The hard drives are partitions up as follows. Drive 1 has a 10 gig windows partition and the rest is for stuff and drive 2 is split at 80 gigs into 2 partitions.
Whenever I copy any data over anywhere the computer restarts and windows is no longer there. sometimes but not every time the partitions will also get wiped. At first I thought it was the hard drive so i got a new one. hence why i have 2! but it still did it so i thought it must be the motherboard so i got a new motherboard. This seemed to cure the problem and nothing happened for a couple of months, until just now! I turned on my computer and the second hard drive was completely blank, no partitions or anything. then i formatted it and copyed some of my backed up data over and the computer restarted with no indication and when it tried to boot up it couldn't because windows wasn't there!!!
whats going on!! I can't think of anything.
I did a memory test on the ram and it seemed ok. i did a cpu test and left it on overload for 6 hours but it was ok then too. I just have no idea whats up.
any help would be very greatfully recieved!!
PS its not a virus as both drives have been formatted and virus scanned!
thanks a lot