Disk Administrator (Strange message)

[Modex]

Hi All,

I have a 80gig ibm drive which is fairly new (less than 1 year) which has been formated and prepared by windows 2000. The problem lies, when I look at it in disk administrator it has a message under the drive letter allocation of (At Risk).

I can find no documenation on what this means or how it is trigged. Has anybody had a similar experience or any idea how this information is generated.

Incidently, I have reformatted the drive and still get the same message.

If I try to send the drive back for replacement, I think they will say there is nothing wrong with the drive as you can read and write to it with no problems, although I have noticed that the odd zip is corrupt (say 1 in 1000 files)

I dont really want to put anything of value on the drive in case I loose information, all the other drives I have report as healthy.

Many thanks

ModeX

 

[koquito]

Did you try a full Scandisk or any similar tool to discover possible errors?
check this link

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/windows/win2k/win2kmmctools.html

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[CMIINT]

The only time this has popped up for me is when the drive is mirrored or RAID and no longer in sync. Running SCANDISK sometimes fixes the problem, too.