Disks fail after several hours of being off

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I installed Momentics v6.2 and used it for several hours, during which time
the system was powered down and up several times. There were no apparent
problems. I was using the IDE to modify some software (ftp’d from another
system).
The next day I powered up the system and the (Western Digital IDE) disk
wouldn’t boot. I ran Western Digital diagnositcs and no errors were found
on the disk. I reinstalled v6.2 from CD-Rom and repeated what I had done
before. The next day the same problem occurred.
Concluding that the disk must be flaky (or incompatible), I installed v6.2
on a Maxtor disk. This time the disk was ok for a couple of days but on the
thiird day the system wouldn’t even recognize that there was a disk!

Can someone please help me?

System is an MSI motherboard with an AMD X2000 with VIA KT333 chipset and
512 mb of memory.

WinXp disk boots up in same system with no problem.

thanks
John Cockerham
john@jfcware.com

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The Maxtor problem was probably due to incorrect jumper settings on the
drive. But there is still an apparent compatibility problem with v6.2 and
the Western Digital drive.



“John Cockerham” <jccockerham@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I installed Momentics v6.2 and used it for several hours, during which
time
the system was powered down and up several times. There were no apparent
problems. I was using the IDE to modify some software (ftp’d from another
system).
The next day I powered up the system and the (Western Digital IDE) disk
wouldn’t boot. I ran Western Digital diagnositcs and no errors were found
on the disk. I reinstalled v6.2 from CD-Rom and repeated what I had done
before. The next day the same problem occurred.
Concluding that the disk must be flaky (or incompatible), I installed v6.2
on a Maxtor disk. This time the disk was ok for a couple of days but on
the
thiird day the system wouldn’t even recognize that there was a disk!

Can someone please help me?

System is an MSI motherboard with an AMD X2000 with VIA KT333 chipset and
512 mb of memory.

WinXp disk boots up in same system with no problem.

thanks
John Cockerham
john@jfcware.com
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jccockerham@yahoo.com sed in <ao6qu0$hei$1@inn.qnx.com>

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It could be flaky [something not disk], perhaps
IDE cable
Motherboard
Power supply (most likely)
Memory (run memtest86 on it)
Overclocking
Fridge/Microwave nearby

w2k and Linuxen have kitchen-sink recovery codes so the hardware troubles
may not appear on them.

kabe