Vista Keeps Deleting My Data !

First of all Hello to everyone :D


I've been using Vista 64 Ultimate for about 5 weeks now, I love it but I hate it at the same time.
Problems with freezing with using 8GB's of memory and other stuff I won't bore you with.

My latest problem involves Vista deleting my data for my data storage HD.
It's a 200MB HD split into 4 partitions, about 4 weeks ago I lost data from partions 2 & 3.
Win Explorer just showed empty drives.
Last week just before I restarted the machine I looked for some files in partition 1 and that was showing no data on the drive.
I restarted the machine and the data showed up again.

Now 2 days ago, partition 3 has been wiped.
I discovered in by installing uTorrent and selecting the download destination.
The previous contents of the partition had gone.
Win Explorer should no data on the drive, but the Pie Chart info showed maybe 25GB's of data out of 50GB's storage size.
I restarted the machine, but the data had been lost.

Is my HD to blame, it's about 4 or 5 years old or is Vista to blame ?
I've only had problems since using Vista.
I've rolled back to system a few times between the incidents and I use AV software/firewall.

Thank you.

Wellcome!

1. Usually manufacturers give quarantee to HDD up to 3 years. 5 years of active use for HDD is already good achievement.

2. Vista has several HDD intensive processes like superfetch, indexing and background maintenance. Those can cause intensive wear of HDD. Better turn those services off if you dislike noise of constant disk access when computer is left idle for a while.

3. There might be some malware spreading via torrents. Vistas virus defence is near to zero. Maybe corruption of data is caused by malware?


BTW. It is abnormal if your 200 MB HDD has 50GB partitions.

Sulev Svilponis said:

Wellcome!

1. Usually manufacturers give garantee to HDD up to 3 years. 5 years of active use for HDD is already good achievement.

2. Vista has several HDD intensive processes like superfetch, indexing and background maintenance. Those can cause intensive wear of HDD. Better turn those services off if you dislike noise of constant disk access when computer is left idle for a while.

3. There might be some malware spreading via torrents. Vistas virus defence is near to zero. Maybe corruption of data is caused by malware?


BTW. It is abnormal if your 200 MB HDD has 50GB partitions.

Click to expand...

Thank you for the reply.
I'll buy a new HD, it doesn't sound like Vista was the problem apart from accessing the drives all the time.
200MB, should have read 200GB