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Corrupted data - Suggest a course of action
Hello.
I have one customer whose boot drive gets corrupted every once a month. I am pulling my hair out because I don't know why this is happening. The computer is fairly new, ASUS mainboard, one 8GB stick of DDR4 RAM, 1TB hard disk, GeForce card, etc.
The drive is partitioned using the mbr scheme with two partitions:
1. 100GB system and applications partition (roughly 60-70 GB free).
2. Remaining space for personal data (user files, desktop, downloads, etc)
The funny thing is that personal data partition is always ok but system partition (c:) gets badly corrupted once every month or so. There seems to be no viruses or malware around. But if doing a chkdsk on system ntfs partition, it will display a plethora of issues, corrupted indexes, lost clusters, etc.
Hopefully I can restore the latest Macrium Reflect Image fast, but every frigging month is the same.
At first I thought the hard disk was failing, but after checking SMART attributes, everything seems ok.
I also thought the memory stick could be faulty, but if so, why is affecting C: partition only and why ONCE A MONTH?
I have changed memory stick from slot 0 to 1. It seems to make no difference whatsoever.
I have never seen anything like this.
Any ideas? BIOS is UEFI, maybe I should try repartitioning the disk to GPT format.
Help me please.
Last edited by eLPuSHeR; 17 Apr 2018 at 02:39.