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re: XP can/will Corrupt a HDD
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 6:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by RhoXS
(4 messages posted)
The SCSI controller caused files on the hard disk drive to become corrupted. The
drive itself may not have been the problem but the result was still unuseable files
and data stored on the drive. I posted this message because I wanted others to be
cautious of a similar problem, not to generate dialog on the semantics of the words
I used.
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:22 am, richard wrote:
>your title is misleading ,you never had a corrupted hard disc drive you had a noncompatible
>scsi controller.
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>On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:13 am, RhoXS wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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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- re: XP can/will Corrupt a HDD (richard: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 5:22 am)
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