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Originally Posted by ArmandBanana
I signed up because I'm looking to see if anyone knows anything about drives "spontaneously" corrupting under XP SP2. In my case these are all ordinary Parallel ATA drives, had the same problem with Hitachi, WD, and Maxtor.
Armand
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By the way anyone following this thread.. One thing I did discover in the ages of ruined data and lost faith in computers..
Windows XP SP2 will actually TURN OFF 48-bit LBA Addressing for larger hard drives. This = data corruption. The drive is now actually really damaged and will no longer format or respond to diagnostics. It was rebooting the computer frequently and still losing data, I am TOLD that this can happen when it is being addressed improperly. Apparently hard drives don't like rude operating systems.
In some weird crazy computer mystery thing, if your drive is already formatted for a larger than 128GB size from back when XP had LBA turned on, it might actually continue to report the proper capacity even after LBA is turned off, and still secretly screw up a lot anyway depending which sectors it's writing to. I don't understand all of that yet, but it may be the reason my drive went crazy. Because yes, LBA was turned off when I checked, even though the drive installation CD had initially turned it on. Installing XP pre-SP1 and updating to SP2 somehow turned it off again.