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re: XP can/will Corrupt a HDD
Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 2:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Stef
(4 messages posted)
oops, for partition table, read File Allocation Table
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 2:29 am, Stef wrote:
>what's the deal with the two people slagging this post off for not being relevant?
>The end result of the problem was numerous cross-linked files and a corrupt registry.
>cross-linked files are due to problems with the partition table, and in that this
>is and the registry are on the hard disk, saying that it's a corrupt hard drive
doesn't
>seem like such a bad description. Maybe the title could have been 'XP with non-compliant
>hardware may cause partition table problems or bad writes to the hard drive' but
>how pedantic do you have to be?
>
>
>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.
>
>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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