Hoster help needed, computer crashes

[barrp]

Originally Posted by Beavis

why dont you make a back up copy on DVD. it would take maybe 20 dvd-r's

or get another external hard drive and drag and drop them.

The DVD idea might work. I have 2 external drives but my library has out grown one of them

Thanks
Jim

[barrp]

Ok I found event viewer and the system has some problems. I have bad sectors errors on the hard drive and the cd rom, don't know how that's possible. I'm also getting paging errors. It looks like this may be too complicated to give advice on but I'll take any help I can get.

I did make 2 partitions this time, figured I'd keep my music separate from the operating system.

Thanks
Jim

[kadidle]

One problem I've seen is the HDD cable going south (particularly new systems, or systems that have had the hard drive swapped out...) This can cause all kinds of flakey errors. Also, the controller can fail (drive controller), pretty rare, but still a posibility. We do hosting in our "other" life, and those two fall right behind a failed hard drive in these types of situations.

If you've replaced the hard drive, toss the cable, I never reuse them, particularly the 80 pin ATA 66+ cables. Maybe it's just me, but my data is worth more then the $5 the cable costs... :D

What makes me wonder is that the CD-Rom is showing a failure. The IDE controller on the master drive can cause issues, but it usually either works or doesn't.

Just some random thoughts on the problem.