Win/client crash - Lost all data in torrents

[Soralitah]

QBT user here and happy with it

[AncientRome]

I don't think it was Tixati causing problems. Especially having to fully reformat a drive, and especially the boot drive.

Checkout HWinfo. It will tell you the remaining life of your drive. Not all drives were created equal (much like people), some drives die sooner than others.
There could also be a lot of other conditions as to why things happened the way they did.

You may also want to put UBCD on a flash drive and try using VIVARD to scan your drive. It is possible that some bad sectors needed to be moved/fixed. If so, then the end of your drives life might be around the corner.

For good measure only have the OS and Applications on your C drive, all data (even torrent files) should be on other drives.

[dueda]

Ok, thanks for all hints so far. It will take some time but I'll check that drive thourougly.

I don't think it was Tixati causing problems. Especially having to fully reformat a drive, and especially the boot drive.

> No, in my case here the boot drive has nothing to do with torrents. Meta-files and data-files are all on diferent drives (E:, F:, G

Checkout HWinfo. It will tell you the remaining life of your drive. Not all drives were created equal (much like people), some drives die sooner than others.
There could also be a lot of other conditions as to why things happened the way they did.
You may also want to put UBCD on a flash drive and try using VIVARD to scan your drive. It is possible that some bad sectors needed to be moved/fixed. If so, then the end of your drives life might be around the corner.

> Yes, but very unlikely all eight folders went poof at the same time the computer froze. Again, Tixati was the visible frozen app, all others were responsive. Not sure, but that makes it the suspect to Windows' accomplice.

For good measure only have the OS and Applications on your C drive, all data (even torrent files) should be on other drives.

[ill88eagle]

From all the info given it sounds like the hard drive had problems. Torrenting causes a lot of read/write stress to a hard drive that "normal" use dont. I killed a cheap external drive in one year using it for all my torrenting. Managed to recover the important files using I forget which software- it's a long time ago, but it was some linux rescue distro. I have no idea about the internal mechanics of windows, but I imagine that is a program you run automatically on startup requires read/write acces to a fucked up drive, and the program is not very well written, it can crash your system BSOD and everything. I doubt the reformatting was nesecarry, but done is done.

[dueda]

From all the info given it sounds like the hard drive had problems. Torrenting causes a lot of read/write stress to a hard drive that "normal" use dont. I killed a cheap external drive in one year using it for all my torrenting. Managed to recover the important files using I forget which software- it's a long time ago, but it was some linux rescue distro. I have no idea about the internal mechanics of windows, but I imagine that is a program you run automatically on startup requires read/write acces to a fucked up drive, and the program is not very well written, it can crash your system BSOD and everything. I doubt the reformatting was nesecarry, but done is done.

One thing is right, reformat wasn't really necessary; but as I said, no way I'd recover the drive.
Such task takes days and may come up with thousands of wrong names/extensions, mixed up folders, so on.

For a while, I'll be testing my system to see if it is unstable. If broken, I'll have no choice but replace my poor man game notebook.
Problem is, not many options around here and nVidia is expensive like euro sports cars.

[AncientRome]

What else was your computer doing at the time of the problem?
If you're referring to a 2012 notebook it could have been doing too many tasks or even might have overheated.

The CPU tends to be the most common component to crash systems. RAM could also do it as well. On the UBCD thing that I recommended it also has Memtest86.

[dueda]

I'll check possibilities. Heat is an issue, I sent it to tech shop for a cleanup, fan check and thermal paste replacement, but around here things are monkey business and it came back like the same or worse. Not much choice than DIY.

About what I was doing, just browsing and running two clients: qBT and Tix; Tix froze, all others did fine and shut down when requested. What Tix was doing, and why it refused to close, is hard to say. Channels were off. It could be moving a big folder from one drive to another, but that shouldn't wipe many different folders.

[AncientRome]

I had trouble relocating a torrent in Tixati using their move option. It didn't freeze anything for me, but it did come up with an error about moving it. Granted I only have 10 torrents loaded.

I also found your post on the Tixati website about 2.57 causing high CPU usage. I personally have not noticed that on my desktop, but one question I do have is does it also give you high drive usage as well?

[dueda]

I had trouble relocating a torrent in Tixati using their move option. It didn't freeze anything for me, but it did come up with an error about moving it. Granted I only have 10 torrents loaded.

I also found your post on the Tixati website about 2.57 causing high CPU usage. I personally have not noticed that on my desktop, but one question I do have is does it also give you high drive usage as well?

Can't tell about disk activity as I had many torrents (like 80 loaded, 10 active) at a time. Any disk activity would be normal, except much intense, continuous operations on a single file, but I didn't monitor that because all seemed normal on disk department.

I moved files a lot, as I used a temp drive to download, then a separate folder (on same drive) for completed torrents, then the option to store by category sub-folder on the definitive storage drive. Tixati worked fine with thousands of files both small or very large. Until that scary night.

[0zz0]

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