It would appear to me that my computer's IDE performance has been steadily degrading... It takes forever to boot, even on a fresh installation of WINDOWS, and I get IDE recognition problems all the time in which I have to switch channels to make it boot. Installing new things also takes forever to do, the HD access light will just kinda idle for a while as windows freezes up for about a minute until it goes off. I've had this problem for a while, but it seems to be getting worse, and there was no problem to begin with. My mobo also turns off completely if you jiggle a USB port the wrong way. o.x Might my mobo be slowly breaking down? :\ Anybody familiar with this kind of issue?2 things come to mind:
Overheating - check mobo temps, hard drive temps, CPU fan rpm's
Power Supply - bad connection somewhereHmm.... think I figured it out. XD Compy decided it wanted to do a chkdsk scan of itself, and guess what it found? Hundreds of errors on the file data table. ^^ It seems to have fixed itself, though, and I'm not getting any more IDE lag, although I do think my Windows takes abnormally long to boot, usually at least 20 bars. [email protected] But if any other problems arise I'll be sure to whine about them. ^^Seems like I'm having the same problem. My computer hang and restart automatically while I was doing my work. After it restart, ONE of my drive (partition) has became "empty" - it only display the Recycle folder. Suspecting I LOST all my files, I notice that the free SPACE are remaining the same as before i.e. 1.78GB out of 12.40Gb, which means my files seems to be still there. I check with Norton's System Information and found out that there are a lot of scandisk files (File0000.chk - File3197.chk) which the total size is the same as my files i.e. 10.62GB. It seems like my files has turned into those scandisk files. What had happened? Any solution to recover my files? Thanks for answering! Quote

Seems like I'm having the same problem. My computer hang and restart automatically while I was doing my work. After it restart, one of my drive (partition) has became "empty" - it only display the Recycle folder. Suspecting I lost all my files, I notice that the free space are remaining the same as before i.e. 1.78GB out of 12.40Gb, which means my files seems to be still there. I check with Norton's System Information and found out that there are a lot of scandisk files (File0000.chk - File3197.chk) which the total size is the same as my files i.e. 10.62GB. It seems like my files has turned into those scandisk files. What had happened? Any solution to recover my files? Thanks for answering!