10-05-2008, 07:19 AM
GeneL wrote:
B L, thanks for the thought, but I'm still wondering if there could have been any other damage to my computer, which might show up at some later date? I'm really puzzled about why only the one drive was affected, so far. My oldest drive, the one that came installed with the computer wasn't loused up, so what do you think happened?
Gene, there is no other damage to anything.
Some sort of power glitch happened while an important sector of the drive was being written to, or a cable or the enclosure's power cord got jiggled at the wrong moment when the desk was shook at the wrong moment (do you lean on the desk to get up out of your chair by chance?), and the directory got hosed.
Happens to the best of us, and once reformatted the drives live happily ever after.