My older Maxtor diamond max 160GB drive is acting up, again. I use this drive as a storage drive, windows is NOT installed on it. The problem I have is that if I create folders, add my pictures to it, and then reboot the computer, the folders are gone and the drive is identical to the way it was before.....
To make it even worse, if I delete any folders from the drive, the will reappear after rebooting.
Then to really throw a curveball, here's what just happened: I ran Maxblast to format and setup the drive in hopes of "fixing" it. I did a complete format of the drive, which included deleting the partition, creating a new partition, formatting etc. After I restarted windows.... you guessed it, all the old files were exactly the way they were before formatting it. WTF!!!!!! How can I do a complete format and STILL have the drive looking identical? No matter what I do to this drive, it always returns to it's current state after rebooting.
I've done multiple virus scans, bot checks, scan disk, defrags, seatool diagnostic checks, all kinds of stuff for months now. I'm at my wits end, it's like the movie ground hog day!!! GOD!
I'm not running any third party back up software, and system restore is turned off on this drive.
Possibly related to this problem, the computer takes about 10 minutes to shut down any time I tell it to "shut down". If I put it on "standby" it will randomly turn itself on. To prevent the computer from turning itself on, I will manually turn "off" the switch located on the back of the computer's power supply- however when I turn the switch back on, I have to wait almost 15 minutes for the computer to start powering back up! It's like it has to warm up before allowing me to turn it on again. I've replaced the battery in the MB, and reflashed the MB bios. My guess is the power supply is bad, probably not related to my hard drive issue.
To make it even worse, if I delete any folders from the drive, the will reappear after rebooting.
Then to really throw a curveball, here's what just happened: I ran Maxblast to format and setup the drive in hopes of "fixing" it. I did a complete format of the drive, which included deleting the partition, creating a new partition, formatting etc. After I restarted windows.... you guessed it, all the old files were exactly the way they were before formatting it. WTF!!!!!! How can I do a complete format and STILL have the drive looking identical? No matter what I do to this drive, it always returns to it's current state after rebooting.
I've done multiple virus scans, bot checks, scan disk, defrags, seatool diagnostic checks, all kinds of stuff for months now. I'm at my wits end, it's like the movie ground hog day!!! GOD!
I'm not running any third party back up software, and system restore is turned off on this drive.
Possibly related to this problem, the computer takes about 10 minutes to shut down any time I tell it to "shut down". If I put it on "standby" it will randomly turn itself on. To prevent the computer from turning itself on, I will manually turn "off" the switch located on the back of the computer's power supply- however when I turn the switch back on, I have to wait almost 15 minutes for the computer to start powering back up! It's like it has to warm up before allowing me to turn it on again. I've replaced the battery in the MB, and reflashed the MB bios. My guess is the power supply is bad, probably not related to my hard drive issue.
