Dear All,
My rig has 2 HDDs. The 20GB one is partitioned to 2 FAT32 10GB drives while the older
12GB is
into 6 FAT16 drives. The 10GB drives are C:\ and E:\.
This morning when I went to check email after leaving the comp. on overnight as I
always do,
when I went to the Start Menu, the screen just froze after going through some of the
menus. I
had to warm reboot. But after NDD went through the motions with lost clusters and
booted up to
windows, I could not access drives H, I and J. All other drives were OK. Checked with
"device
manager " and it said all drives were working properly. Rebooted to dos and the same
drives were
invisible. Robooted and checked the bios and the HDDs were all there. Out of curiosity
I looked
at the bios hardware monitor and it reported the cpu and mobo temperature was 41C.
Switched off the system and let it cool for 10mins. Voila! All partitions were
back.Ran ndd
again to thoroughly check all drives and no problem was found.
So can overheating (if that was what it was since the bios monitors are not accurate
based on
experience) ruin partitions? It does not seem to be a bad hdd as norton disk doctor
did not find
any fault there. So what caused it and how can I prevent a recurrence?
BTW, the computer is never switched off except when forced to after a crash. Can this
be a
contributory factor (seems like a dumb question)?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Rig details:
Win98 org. (but patched)
PIII-800mhz cpu
256ram
asus CUV4X mobo
Both HDD from Quantum
Oh, one more question.
I have a comp. at work and the clock keeps running faster. On average my guess is
about 20mins a
day. The cpu is not overclocked or anything like that and there are no apps running in
the
background except a LAN. How can I fix it WITHOUT installing third-party apps as it is
a company
rig?
Details:
PIII-600(I think)
128mb
mobo unknown
win98se
TIA again
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