Another hard drive question

[stracing]

to get you guys onto the right track, i'm asking "why" it happened more than asking for a solution.

ok...so i installed a new hard drive which is the master. after installing winxp, on its first boot up, it does a disk check on my second hard drive. it then goes on saying "deleting orphan files on sector..."

once i reach the desktop i check the contents on my second hard drive and about 40gb is deleted. luckily nothing too important.

does anyone know why that happened? what i can do to prevent it next time?
its the first i encountered this problem.

thanx

[sikx5]

Is your new drive a Western Digital by chance? that also happened to me, i lost many valueable files :( .
I just unplugg the second hard drive now, much safer

[stracing]

no..its seagate. both of them. i don't think its a hardware issue. i think its just winblows giving its users the shits again

but whats there to say it won't happen when you plug it back in?

[AlienDB7]

Did a quick search on google, you're probably having this problem (or symptoms):
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic4824.html

[stracing]

thanx alien
seems like a complicated problem

[stracing]

ok i've done everything that could be done and seems like nothing wrong wth my hardware. the problem seems to be just having a large hard drive

i think the only prevention is backup your backup drive. disconnect your backup drive before reinstall and hope everything goes well. or not use NTFS. i guess thats a good reason TT shouldn't upgrade from win98 hehe

[stracing]

sorry to drag this back up but just letting you know the cause

because i had an old xp installation disc, it doesn't have 48bit LBA support. meaning the largest hd it can run is 128gb. therefore after installation, it runs chkdsk and deletes everything after the 128gb.

however if you have an xp installation disc with sp1, then its no problem.