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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Monday, January 27, 2003 at 9:26 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kass
(2 messages posted)
I just want to say that I am in the same boat as Peter. I apparently made the mistake
of installing XP Pro on a NTFS formatted partition. My XP Pro SP1 runs fine, but
corrupts files regularly *only* upon shutdown or reboots. I am running an AMD XP
2100+, gigabyte motherboard, maxtor 60 GB, samsung PC2700 256 MB, latest bios, chipset
drivers etc. I am now afraid to shutdown or reboot, good tip peter to shut down by
powering off!! ;-) I'll have to try that as I am sick of having to enter the recovery
console to salvage the registry and then using system restore in safe mode. I can't
believe MS isn't aware of this problem with their shutdowns.. FWIW, I am convinced
this is a software issue as I have checked my hard drive for surface errors using
a Maxtor utility and I have also checked my RAM.
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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