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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Monday, December 16, 2002 at 9:15 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael Lees
(2 messages posted)
Hi all,
Phew am I glad I found this thread! My problems started a few weeks back after buying
a new computer with new HD. I installed XP and everything seemed to be okay. That
was until one day, while XP was booting I switched my USB (music) keyboard on. All
of a sudden UNMOUNTABLE_VOLUME was displayed and XP wouldn't load. So I used the
CD to load the recovery console and ran chkdsk, XP booted and I thought everything
was okay. Once XP loaded I ran chkdsk and it was reporting bad sectors on the drive!
I assumed I'd been given a bad HD by maxtor so I went to their website to return
the drive. Maxtor have a piece of software called powermax which you can download.
They use it to certify their drives and remove bad sectors after construction.
I downloaded this and performed a low-level format and certified the drive. It was
coming up okay? So I re-installed XP, while XP was formating the drive (NTFS) it
complained saying the partition was too small. When I looked XP had partitioned my
drive in two, an 8Meg partition and a 40Gig partition? I have no idea why this happened
but I installed XP on the 40 Gig partition and everything seemed okay. Now ultra-paranoid
of my drive I found myself running chkdsk every 10 minutes. I grew even more concerned
when the drive was constantly indicating minor errors, I assumed it was some indication
that a major error was about to happen? However upon further inspection I realised
the error reporting was completely inconsistent! I'd run chkdsk in the command prompt
window (read-only mode) and it would report errors suggesting I re-run chkdsk with
/f option. However if I then ran chkdsk again immediately afterwards (without the
/f option) still in the command prompt, chkdsk would report no problems? Obviously
the error can't have been fixed if chkdsk was in read-only mode so obviously the
error wasn't ever there?
After further investigation I've realised chkdsk seems to report spurious errors
about the volume bitmap? What the hell is going on?? Perhaps the reason there isn't
more news on this is people never run chkdsk manually, they rely on XP to check for
drive inconsistencies on booting?
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 at 2:44 am, Ken Do wrote:
>Oh my god! I knew it! The constant corruption wasn't just my computer! What suprise
>me most of all is why isn't there more news about this over the internet. After
running
>chkdsk /f, then doing some task, the same error would report again! My computer
doesn't
>crash often or at all and I usually shut it down through XP.
>
>Can someone tell me if it truly corrupts my files or just a reporting error? I have
>lots of important files on my computer and I rather not take the chance of it being
>corrupted.
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