Hard drive related question

After installing a 4th hard drive in my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), with P4C800E Deluxe MoBo in Antec Sonata case running Windows XP Pro, I began having some problems with it. When I defrag I get this message "could not write such and such a file" and SATA #1 drive after defragging disappears from the list of hard drives in My Computer. After shutting down and letting the memory die, I reboot and the drive is there.

Totally freakin weird.

I re installed my drive image from before I put on the drive and some programs and samples (the image is pre problems) but the problem persists. So I began deleting some of the large redundant files and when I went to shut down the warning came up "Could not write such and such a file etc. etc." This is weird behavior for sure. The DAW is not hooked up to the net, and anything I installed on the DAW was checked for viruses on my laptop which has an anti virus proggie on it.

I don't get it.

My drive setup is this;
IDE1 two IDE drives one slave (40 gig) and one master (master is OS drive with 2 partitions 120 gig)
IDE2 Two DVD's, one slave and one master
SATA1 one SATA drive set to Master 120 gig
SATA2 one SATA drive no jumper for master/slave 200 gig (this is the new drive just installed)

 

Run the diagnostic utilities from the manufacturer of the new drive (this is the only one that generates errors?) You should be able to check the file system with those, there may be a difference between the actual size of the data area and what Windows "thinks" the area is.

Run chkdsk on the drive (look for "error checking" or "chkdsk" in Help and Support).

Matt

 

Thanks Mattman

will do