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re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by wrenched
(2 messages posted)
just thought that i would agree with you about changing to fat 32, i did that same
thing and everything worked just fine for me . goodluck. auhhhh, im runing an older
intell w\ xp 700.
On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 8:10 am, Mike wrote:
>Paul:
>
>I'm amazed that I have not seen more messages like yours on the Web!
>
>For the last several months on both of my machines I have experienced problems similar
>to yours with my Windows XP Pro boot drives that are formatted with the NTFS file
>system. If you're interested I suggest you read Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
>Q315688. I'm not endorsing the article per se, however you may want to note their
>brief paragraph toward the end of the article, which is titled "NTFS File System
>Corruption". It is indicative of the kind of problems I have experienced running
>Chkdsk from the command prompt.
>
>I could go on and on, but I will make only a couple of more points. One, if you
call
>Microsoft, the techs will probably tell you to load Recovery Console (if you haven't
>already; it is not installed by default) in order to correct the Chkdsk reporting
>errors. My experience is that as soon as you think you accomplished something with
>it (using Chkdsk with the "p" and "r" switches), the problem comes right back. This
>is not to suggest that Recovery Console in and of itself is not a good thing. In
>fact as I write this I am seriously comtemplating using it to reformat my boot drives
>with FAT32.
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>The last comment I want to make is that I have recently discovered that in excess
>of 20% of my boot drive usage (as reported by various disk utilities) cannot be
accounted
>for (yes, after making adjustments for page and hibernation files). And, in contradistinction
>to the KB article referred to above (note the references to "misreporting of disk
>space allocation"), my folder/file sizes compared to "size on disk" is relatively
>tight. So who knows what's going on?
>
>Thanks for providing an outlet for my frustration. Later,
>
>Mike
>
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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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