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XP can/will Corrupt a HDD
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RhoXS
(4 messages posted)
I loaded XP using a clean install starting with a cleanly formatted drive. Everything
seemed well for about four weeks. During this period I was impressed with the crisp
trouble free operation of XP. Suddenly, the system locked up. When rebooting, Scandisk
found a very large number of cross linked files. So many files were lost that it
was necessary to rebuild the system, again with a clean install. Due to backups,
I was able to recover almost all my data. Within a day or so the system crashed again
but this time the problem was a corrupted Hive or registry file. At this point, I
then found that everytime I rebuilt the system, it would crash within a day or so
as a resuilt of either a large number of crosslinked files or a corrupted hive/registry
file.
I suspected a bad HDD and replaced it (60 Gig IBM). This did not solve the problem
so I replaced the Abit P3V4X mobo with an ASUS ST6. Problem still not solved. After
two weeks of frustration I finally called Microsoft and paid $35.00 for a pay for
support call (an excellent service). After much troubleshooting we discovered that
one of my expansion cards, an Adaptec 2910 SCSI card, was not on Microsoft's compatibility
list. The technician also had a body of circumstantial evidence in his database,
from other calls, that this card could cause similar problems. I replaced it with
a 2930 (a compatible card per both Microsoft & Adaptec). This seemed to solve the
problem as everything has worked fine for two weeks now.
This incident really raises some red flags. A piece of hardware, not at all related
to the hard disk storage system, can cause corrupted files. I have to wonder if a
malfunction of a compatible card can also corrupt files.
Has anyone else had similar probelms?
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