re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 6:54 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by VM
(1 messages posted)
Same trouble with WinXP on NTFS 80 Gb Seagate SATA, Motherboard Abit NF7-S.
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 9:42 am, nonsence wrote:
>wow, sounds like me a year or more ago. i had the same kinda problems with windows
>2000 pro, server and advanced server. i tried them all, all with no luck. my computer,
>which i custom built with the parts I WANTED, I CHOICE, I BOUGHT, gave me nothing
>but file corruptions, deleted files, and so much bullshit.
>my error messages were during boot up when the "all mighty" chkdsk "utility" would
>run and start deleting bad indexes. well those "bad indexes" happened to be many
>of my movies, mp3 and sometimes even text files or web server content. html, jpg,
>and other file i had on my IIS5 web server would be deleted.
>what i found strange was it would delete a 700mb movie file but leave the actual
>"visible" icon in the directory. however the file would only show up as 0k, thus
>it wouldn't work because as far as windows media player is concerned it's not a
movie
>anymore.
>same thing would happen if i copied a dvd to the hard drive. eventually, chkdsk
would
>come along and delete the indexes upon boot, screw me over, and that's that. i'm
>left tearing out my hair, yelling at my computer half expecting it to give me the
>finger and slap me in the face! but we all know that's not true, because microsoft
>does that all on their own.
>as for the indexing service, what if i need it? for lets say a web site search engine
>or just because i search for files alot? i mean, what the hell! microsoft wants
to
>get into the enterprise server ring with UNIX and their workstation systems which
>are VERY much like their server systems can't run worth shit, corrupt files, and
>basically just FAIL.
>given, when Windows works, it works and i like it. hell, i've done some cool things
>with it, Active Directory, IIS5, System Management Server, etc. all cool software.
>but how come when it REALLY COUNTS it always fails?!
>
>well, to sum it up. has anyone figured a way out of this yet? i mean hell, it's
already
>the end of 2003, i just got in on this forum now. but i got all the windows 2000
>updates, and i still fear that one day chkdsk will come along and screw me over.
>and it's not like i can avoid it. whenever the partition is messed up or there are
>"performance" problems, i do need to run chkdsk to fix them. and it works. except
>it does my files with them. not windows files, but bigger files usually. and my
hard
>drive is only an 80gb. my windows is on a different partition. can ANYONE help?!
>
>
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