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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Oct 2012 07:00
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Anyone know of a good tool that can check SSD's for possible damage or corruption? I had 60GB of files disappear before my very eyes today. Not in my recycle bin, nothing moved. I've searched of drive on my system, the files simply don't exist anymore and I haven't a clue what happened. And when I say disappeared before my eyes I mean literally. I was copying a file out of a folder when *poof*, 90% of the files in the folder disappeared!

I have a 120GB OCZ Agility 3, only 3 months old.

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
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Agent Dink
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Posted: 21st Oct 2012 07:33
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Oh, fun. I have the same drive... Sorry, I can't help, never seen that happen before and I'm only on my first ever SSD, so I don't have much experience troubleshooting them.
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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 21st Oct 2012 11:22
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Sure its not a virus you have which happened to delete those files? If it was the hard-drive corrupting I would have thought your system would crash.
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Diggsey
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Posted: 21st Oct 2012 16:41 Edited at: 21st Oct 2012 16:41
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It sounds like they had already been deleted by another program in the background, but your view of the folder only updated when you did something else (like copy a file). A hardware fault happening to corrupt the file list in such a way as to leave it perfectly valid is practically impossible given the complexity of modern file systems. The files may still be recoverable though using any standard file recovery tool.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 21st Oct 2012 22:57 Edited at: 21st Oct 2012 23:13
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are you on XP? using FAT-32 or NTFS?

I have the same drive for the same period of time... if not longer...

Quote: "I was copying a file out of a folder when *poof*, "


Are you sure you did COPY and not CUT? I have a history of using CUT and losing files... a lesson hard learnt...

Where were you copying the files to? if you did not have enough space Windows would normally warn you [Win7 at least]

I solely use an SSD for OS purposes, I never keep or store anything on it...

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This is currently the only tools section I know of...

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/

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Indicium
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Cut wouldn't do anything until he pasted elsewhere, come on.


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MrValentine
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Quote: "Cut wouldn't do anything until he pasted elsewhere, come on."


Precisely

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Indicium
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2012 01:36
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I'm sure he'd realise cutting and pasting his files, not then going on the forum and saying they just vanished.


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MrValentine
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2012 02:27
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nvm, my point was that it 'happens' during cut and paste most often...

I was not saying he did, just asking if he was sure... is there anything wrong with that?

Circumstantially he could like many of us have been, tired at the time, as I was when I did my past mistakes with cut and paste...

Eitherway, I see no need to discuss that further...

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2012 18:46
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Actually my friend had something similar happen to him on our school server storage... A friend got his computer while he was AFK and renamed all his folders. However, it had some side effects. After a few folders, All the files on the drive dissapeared. Though the folders remained I think.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2012 22:22
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I didn't cut the files. I'm pretty sure I only had one file selected anyway, as that file appeared where I wanted it. As far as accidently moving or pasting the files anywhere else on the system, I literally did a file search over my entire system looking for those files, nothing! I tried undoing my last several actions, made no difference.

The drive uses NTFS and isn't a system drive. It's primarily a scratch disk and where I download stuff until I either delete it or move it elsewhere. I use a Mushkin for my system disk and its awesome.

I ended up redownloading all the files that went missing, which took all night. Still got one more that could take awhile to download. The drive doesn't contain anything critical on it, but I'd still like to know what happened.

Quote: "This is currently the only tools section I know of...

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/"

I saw that. Appears to be just a firmware update.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2012 02:24
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Did the space on the drive free up after they disappeared? For example you had 20 gigs of free space until they disappeared and you had 90 gigs of free space?

Did you check to make sure they aren't hidden files?
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Phaelax
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2012 04:19
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The space freed up. And funny you said 90GB cause I think that's about what I had afterwards. And I have hidden files set to show regardless.

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