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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 5:18 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robot
(1 messages posted)
I've been watching strains in several places about this topic. The one thing that
I have noticed, that it is always NTFS that is the problem. That is the only common
factor in many cases. This leads me to believe that NTFS IS SCREWED UP!!! Go for
FAT32 every time you get the chance. If XP won't format FAT32, then get a win98
boot disk and do it yourself. The win98 boot disk is the only piece of software
that microsoft ever wrote without errors. fdisk and format.com are the only partition/format
programs that I ever use, because they are the only ones that ever work. Anything
else that tries to format FAT32 always screws it up and I have to go back and do
it again with format.com. sigh.
On Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 9:47 am, Peter Shkabara wrote:
>I just found this thread and I too am glad to hear that I am not alone. My new system
>uses an Intel motherboard with SATA RAID - I thought that the problem was due to
>the RAID controller, but your descriptions match mine too well. The answer as to
>corruption, unfortunately, is YES - I expereienced actual corruption of the disk
>and had to fix it before the comptuer would boot. Fotunately, CHKDSK seems to be
>enough to fix it. I seem to have isolated true corruption as occuring only during
>shutdown. To avoid this corruption, I started to turn off the power without doing
>a Windows shutdown - I know that this is exactly opposite of what Microsoft tells
>us to do, but it seems to work for me. Any comments and experiences from other folks
>would be appreciated. For reference, I am running XP Pro with SP1. The hard disk
>is SATA RAID (Silicon Image 3112r) with two WD800JB drives partitioned as a stripe
>set (RAID 0) and a single NTFS partition of 149GB.
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| | | Sins of NTFS (Down For The Count: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 8:22 pm) |
|  | re: (Tong Narak: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 6:43 pm) |
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