re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 4:23 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James Tuvix
(1 messages posted)
Well I think this update solved all my corruption-problems. After installing it I
had no chkdsk at startup any more!! thy to zippy!!
On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 3:21 pm, Zippy wrote:
>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.
>For anyone thats interested in trying this -
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];331958
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