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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 10:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by esmithz
(1 messages posted)
I'm assuming you only need to change the driver in system setup. If that is so then
what driver file are you using for Standard PC?
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 8:09 am, Peter Shkabara wrote:
>I now have my system under control and can share some of what I learned with this
>forum. To prevent corruption on my system, I changed my computer type form ACPI
to
>Standard PC. When I shut down, XP stops and tells me "It is safe ...". No more corruptions!
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>Regarding CHKDSK - if CHKDSK is run agains the boot drive, it will report errors
>because some files are open. Need to run it with /f so it is done at startup. Also
>- very strange - certain $I30 errors are "normal" according to Microsoft and only
>indicate "housekeeping" tasks that CHKDSK does. Apparently there is no real corruption
>in the directory.
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>The corruption I expereienced on shutdown, however, was not limited to these "expected"
>errors and actually damaged directory structure entries. Microsoft needs to add
more
>delay before turning power off on ACPI systems - there was such a problem with Win98
>I believe. On my own system, the RAID driver on the SATA drives does not allow me
>to turn off write cache, so that is not an option for me.
>
>I there a way to send such bug reports to Microsoft? There are a number of us that
>are seeing this problem, but I know of no way to report it to the big company.
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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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