I used to take pride saying that i am the owner of an ASUS A7A 266 with an AMD Athlon 1,2 Ghz and 256 MB of DDR memmory. I used to talk all day about my computer and how much sacrifice it costed me, but now, everything change. I`m a graphic design student, and i produce really BIG files in Corel and Photoshop formats. The less i ask from my PC is the power to do that and secure store and recovery of my data. The power, it´s OK, but the files i save in my Western Digital 40 GB Hard Disk have begin to return with horrendous deformations and huge loss of data and quality. When i try to open this unfortunated files in Photoshop, a message appear saying "this file is damaged. Possible causes: disk error or SCSI error". I dont have any SCSI devices, so i blaimed the 40GBHD. I´ve tried Scan disk and Defragmentation, but i couldnt solve this problem. Something is killing my work! Help me, please!

Welcome to the forum:

It may be to late for you, but I never understand why people invest so much money into a system with NO BACKUP PLAN.....

First, download the diagnostic software from the hard drive manufacturer and test the drive for defects.

Try this:
1. Re-create Photoshop's general preference file.
Photoshop stores information about plug-ins, features, and the application itself in its general preferences file (Adobe Photoshop [version] Prefs). A damaged general preferences file may cause Photoshop to behave unexpectedly. You can easily determine if the problem is related to this files by re-creating it.


To re-create Photoshop's general preferences file:
1. Quit Photoshop.
2. Rename the Adobe Photoshop [version] Prefs file (e.g., to Filename.old), and then restart Photoshop. The Adobe Photoshop [version] Prefs file is in the following location:


Photoshop 6.0
- System Folder: Preferences: Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder


Photoshop 5.5
- Adobe Photoshop 5.5: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Settings folder

Photoshop 5.0.x
- Adobe Photoshop 5.0.x: Adobe Photoshop Settings folder


3. Restart Photoshop.

If this is not it, post back with the error number that goes with the message.

and by the way

--> Backup <----> Backup <----> Backup <----> Backup <----> Backup <--