parameter is incorrect??

[satnone]

heres my problem.. i have a 3 gig P4 with windows 2000 server.. 2 physical hard drives both on the primary ide.. a maxtor 80 GB with my OS on it and a western digital 200 GB with all my important files stored on it.. well a few days ago i started getting errors that said my files r unreadable and corrupt.. this continued happening till i got so many i had to restart the computer.. after starting back up i went to that drive in explorer and i noticed the volume label was now gone.. and when i clicked on it i got this error g:\ is not accessible the parameter is in correct.. i tried chkdsk and it did not work.. i noticed that it says there is no file system anymore.. i took the drive out and put it in my other computer and it asked me if i wanted to format it.. so i put it back in the old computer and it still didnt work so then i tried about 6 different data recovery programs and recovered about 20 files out of hundreds of thousands.. i have another WD 200 GB with an exact copy of everything that was on that drive i keep as a backup.. i hooked that one up to the secondary ide and started burning all of it onto dvds.. when i almost had everything copied.. my windows explorer froze up for some reason and i had to restart.. when i went to the backup drive in explorer i noticed that one also had no volume label anymore.. when i clicked on it i got the same error.. i tried to recover that drive but i got nothing at all this time.. thank god i copied most all of my files to dvd.. i thaught i could never lose my files since i have so much backup but this is insane... the biggest problem now is that i dont know whats causing this.. is it my OS or is it bad hard drives?? ive done quite a few virus scans with 2 antivirus programs.. norton and bit defender and everything came up clean.. i also ran a few hard drive tests and they all said my drives were working ok... what is the deal? can somebody please help me ive tried everything and searched everywhere online.. i dont know what to do anymore!!

 

[Blind_Arrow]

O/S, win2K sucks when it gets bad

have u tried changinf your RAM? lately? or upgraded your BIOS?

 

[developer]

Check for an upgrade for your bios. try the windows site.

 

[satnone]

i jsut baught this intel mother board a few months ago.. the ram is a few months old too.. i got 2 bad sticks in a row at first.. but that problem was taken care of.. the last i tested them they were both fine.. i use memtest86

 

[satnone]

another thing i did is reformatted one of the drives and after a while it started getting those errors again.. this time some files and folders even dissapeared completely.. this time i ran chkdsk before rebooting and it didnt work.. but this time i got an error.. so i rebooted and then it ran after all.. it found tons of errors and i guess it fixed them.. it was fine for a little while and i took the drive out and put it in my other computer again and when i booted up and tried to go to that drive i got an error again but this time it said something about the drive being corrupt

 

[Blind_Arrow]

windows 2K creates too many errors specially memory related. do u have XP to install?

 

[satnone]

i could get it but i dont want it.. i like 2000 and i want a server OS.. no matter how shitty 2000 is though there is still a problem here that cant just be because im running win2000.. u know what i meen.. i really need to find out what to do with these drives.. cause like i said i have maxtors hooked up also and they even have the OS on them and theres no problems with them

 

[Blind_Arrow]

well, XP is as well server softwre, u'll get IIS enhanced in it, and it as well be fater than your machine on win2K.
I know transition from win2K is difficult, as I have used it quite a while and when XP came, i use to think i will never use XP, but used once, found it stable and lighter than any previous versions, now I must say that this is best O/S out of M/S after 98SE

it as well proved to be stable as once i newely built A7N8X-Deluxe and upgraded it with A7N8X (non-deluxe) BIOS in fault. win98 didnt booted up nr did 2K, and windows XP does, and as well ran quiet well until i came to know that the problem is BIOS.

 

[satnone]

well ill tihnk about using xp.. but this still doesnt solve my hard drive problems.. i gotta narrow this down so i can deside where to go from here.. trash the drives or no?

 

[satnone]

i jsut wanna know if a drive without physical problems but with a corrupt MFT can be repartitioned and reformatted back to normal again.. or if its not safe to use it anymore???