Great. Just fucking great.

So I spend from Friday through Wednesday copying files from DVD-Rs onto the Maxtor drive. I followed the advice of a commenter and disabled caching, “optimized for quick removal.”

And then tonight, while in the middle of copying yet another disk, the computer decides to reboot.

Yes. That’s right. The computer reboots. I check the drive. First, chkdsk bombs out. Then I look at disk properties and it tells me that there are 292 gigs of data on the drive. Then I look in file explorer and it can only see approximately 32 gigs of the data.

Yes, the indexes are corrupted again.

Yes, in terms of what the drive can “see” it is back at exactly the same place it was on Friday when I started restoring data again.

This never fucking happens on the Stardom box. It has now happened three times on the Maxtor box.

At this point I am thinking about buying another Stardom box, cracking open the Maxtor box and removing the drives and putting them into the other box.

The emails I received from Seagate tech support were absolutely useless. I called their support hotline in the US (using Skype), after 15 minutes got connected to their support desk in India and the guy spent more time trying to correctly spell my name and email address than in offering solutions for the problem – to whit, send the drive to Seagate data recovery, they will recover the data, return the drive, I should reformat the drive and start again. Why does this keep happening? Um, er, uh, reformat the drive and start again?

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