>This is a copy of a post I made at another forum with a possible solution. 
>
>Id already tried all the usual things that have been suggested here. Like most people 
>my main suspicion was the early power off problem - so to eliminate this I hot wired 
>the PSU to provide power all the time and ignore the power off signal from the motherboard 
>- and I still got the same corruption on reboot. 
>
>After searching and trying numerous vaguely related patches and fixes from MS I 
came 
>across Q331958 - 137GB ATAPI driver limit in XP (in all versions of XP upto and 
including 
>SP1). Id noticed this before but as it said it only applied to Hibernate and kernal 
>dumps I hadn't bothered installing it. 
>
>To quote from MS "The ATAPI driver for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) does not 
use 
>48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) when it writes memory dump files or hibernation 
>files. Additionally, the flush cache command is not issued to a large hard disk 
that 
>has 48-bit LBA enabled when Windows XP enters standby or hibernation" 
>
>However I thought I might as well install it - and so far after 10 reboots I havent 
>had one chkdsk or any other sign of corruption. 
>
>Either thats a 1 in a million coincidence or MS are being economical with the truth 
>and the bug applies to ALL disk accesses. I was also under the impression that as 
>most IDE Raid devices used virtual SCSI devices that these ATAPI problems shouldn't 
>apply. 
>
>For anyone thats interested in trying this -
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];331958 
>

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