everything gets corrupted on my D:\ drive!

[mmace]

I re-installed windows XP pro the other day and backed everything up on to my D:\ drive (160Gb), when I put stuff back in My Documents, about 40% of it is corrupted and cannot be read. Now anything I download from FTP sites or bit torrent on to that drive are also corrupted (usually when in RAR files which is mainly what I download). When I unrar something that's about 40-50 rar files then there's usually 1 or 2 that are faulty, if I re-download then it's usually a different rar file that's corrupted.

Any idea's?
is my HD on its way out?
will chkdisk make any difference?

[PhilEnfield]

Did you install either SP1A or SP2 with/after your reinstall ?
If not it could be that XP is having trouble with accsesing a drive greater than 137gb and data loss.

[mmace]

my windows comes with SP1, I tried to install SP2 but it messed up half way through and uninstalled


I had no problems with this drive before reinstalling so I don't see what the problem is (Same version of Windows installed before)

[PhilEnfield]

What size is your 160gb drive shown as in My Computer ?

What size is your OS drive ? & what size is shown in My Computer ?

What mobo ?

[mmace]

oh dear, I just restarted my PC and now it says my D:\ drive is not formatted
any idea's what to do? I need the data on there (over 100gb) as there's things like holiday videos and over 1000 photo's

[mmace]

it says the file system is RAW, in disk management it says the drive is healthy 151gb

anyone any idea's?

i really need this data

[MasterMind]

Looks simple but still... try changing your HDD data cable.

Please don't run any diag utility on that drive as it will destroy the data beyond any limit.

[mmace]

tried that, also tried putting the HD in another PC but didn't work

ended up doing a quick format then used a recovery util and got everything back

cheers for all the responses