re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 3:14 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by William Smith
(2 messages posted)
To get your data back, use a copy of GetDataBack for FAT or GetDataBack for NTFS.
This decent program does find all your data - long filenames and directory structures.
If you download the shareware version for evaluation you won't be able to copy the
files, BUT, it will make an image file for you that you can write to another drive
or partition.
I am also having this damn corrupt file problem. Numerous small files (all copied
to another directory as backup for an XP re-install) report 'Access Denied' and you
can't do diddly squat with them. I managed to delete some of them through the command
prompt but, others won't work. I'm disecting the file permissions on these and I'm
going to investigate the NTFS file system in hex.
Bootex.log reports as being corrupt and can't be deleted or opened. Incidently, this
is the cause of chkdsk running every time that the system is started from a shutdown.
Checkntfs states the drive is 'dirty'.
Now, I'm still investigating this but, I am absolutely certain it is in the XP OS
software somewhere.
I can guarantee that XP is writing invalid info to NTFS - whether it's on shutdown
or not I can't be sure but, as others surmise in their posts it is a possibility.
I'll post an update to this thread when I find out more.
Regards to all,
Bill
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 2:03 pm, Paul wrote:
>Glad to know I'm not imagining it.
>
>Firstly - any way to recover the files.
>
>Secondly - any sign of a proper fix yet?
>
>Cheers
>
>Paul
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