Odd.....huffyuv's killed my hard drive

Xarathion · Post by **Xarathion** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:48 pm

That's pretty much what happened.

My next amv I hoped to be working on soon was a Gundam 0080 one. So, I read the guides, decrypted the DVDs I have, and converted the vobs/dv2's to avi files after cleaning them up in Avisynth and VirtualDubMod. I had 2 files, each for one of the DVDs I ripped. I had a general idea of what clips I was going to use, but I converted all the animation footage in the OVA regardless so I could keep my options open.

Everything was going fine, and I had finished saving that second avi/huffyuv file shortly before. I wasn't even sitting at my computer, and all of a sudden I started getting popups saying that such and such file was corrupted and could not be read by Windows. It did this for practically every file on the hard drive except for those two avi's.

Here, I assumed that it was some sort of resource conflict. There was still plenty of space left on my hard drive. (it's 200 GB, and those two files took up about 90 gig total) I had just done a reformat a week before after backing all my files up, so the hard drive was fresh, aside from basic utilities, the AMVapp and such that were installed.

So, I deleted the two files, not knowing what to do. But the damage was already done. I could access nothing on the hard drive. Couldn't even Ctrl Alt Del or run a ChkDsk to fix the bad sectors.

I shut the computer off, and tried to reboot. Error loading operating system. Popped in a boot disk to try and read the hard drive. No dice...it said the drive was raw and needed to be formatted.

Has this ever happened before to anyone when ripping footage? I never thought something like this would happen. Any idea how to cure it? A Win98 boot disk won't recognize the full 200GB of the hard drive...the maximum it can format is like 46 gig or something, even with large disk support enabled.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:05 pm

Never heard of that happening. Its more than likely some problem with your drive than something with huffyuv. All the data huffyuv required it to write probably just pushed it over the edge. How old is the drive?

Seek support from the drive manufacturer. Usuaully the drive is still under warantee and you can get a replacement if there is a problem.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:07 pm

Probably corrupted the FAT. If you ran a filesystem recovery program on it, you might be able to save something.

Xarathion · Post by **Xarathion** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:19 pm

It's a Maxtor with a 3 year warranty on it....I think I got it around Christmas of 2004, a little over a year ago.

I plugged it into a family member's computer, and trying to see if it will format so I can just reinstall windows.....again. >_< If it doesn't work, I'll probably call Maxtor.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:42 pm

Xarathion wrote:It's a Maxtor

That explains it all.

I had a maxtor back in 2002 and it died within 3 months.

Xarathion · Post by **Xarathion** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:01 pm

Well, oddly enough, the format worked through the other computer, and recognized the full size of the drive even though it couldn't actively read it while it was formatting.

I'll reinstall everything later...too lazy and busy at the moment. After Windows is reinstalled I'll run a disk defrag and stuff.

Perhaps next time I'll rip the footage into smaller segments, just in case. (half an episode a file as opposed to 3 episodes in a file) This hard drive had absolutely no problems before tonight, so maybe the NTFS got screwed up after all like Kalium said.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:32 pm

Sometimes writing a file over 1 or 2 GB (can't remember) in size can cause the FAT to choke. Try to keep it under that size and it should be fine.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:41 pm

badmartialarts wrote:Sometimes writing a file over 1 or 2 GB (can't remember) in size can cause the FAT to choke. Try to keep it under that size and it should be fine.

I thought NTFS was supposed to fix this.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:42 pm

Willen wrote:
badmartialarts wrote:Sometimes writing a file over 1 or 2 GB (can't remember) in size can cause the FAT to choke. Try to keep it under that size and it should be fine.
I thought NTFS was supposed to fix this.

You think you can actually trust that? NTFS has been known to up and die for no good reason.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:05 am

Castor Troy wrote:I had a maxtor back in 2002 and it died within 3 months.

Don't scare me. I bought a Maxtor 3 months ago.

Xarathion wrote:I had 2 files, each for one of the DVDs I ripped. I had a general idea of what clips I was going to use, but I converted all the animation footage in the OVA regardless so I could keep my options open.

You aren't supposed to convert entire DVDs. Make only short clips. If you're not sure what clips to use, then keep the VOBs on your HD and convert the clips if you need them.