I was listening to my mp3 collection on my G: drive (1 physical drive with 2 partitions) and I decided to reboot my computer after some heavy rendering and playing Unreal Tournament.

So I reboot my computer (Running Windows 2K Pro), just to find out that my G: partition decided to go on strike, I thought It could be total failure, but the other partition worked fine but a little slow (same physical drive). So, I thought I lost all 7339 of my mp3s (14.6 GB worth). I didnt know what to think, so I went into the DOS shell and got a "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)" and I thought wtf? After trying my best to get to my music, I backed up the other files from the other partition, and took the drive out and put it into an older machine running Win98 SE. It did the same thing, but I was able to access the files, run scandisk (which scandisk hung for about 3 min on the "Boot Area Test"), defrag, etc and said there was no problem minus the boot area test being slow. :confused: So I copied all 14.6GB over my network to my local machine (after clearing up some space) Copying took awhile, but after I copied the music (without any problems), I re-fdisk'd the HD, and formatted it, and now its running fine. No bad sectors, clusters, etc. The Drive is a ATA100 (yes, its on a ATA100 controller) 30GB Maxtor 7200 RPM IDE drive.

Could it be possible that the partition got somehow screwed up, or is this a good sign for complete HD failure?

Does anyone know where I can get a good, free HD abuse program (a brutal HD benchmark app ;) ).

I'm not gonig to use this HD for awhile, to make sure its not going to fail.

Odd isnt it...? I never even heard or seen the "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)". :confused: