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Corrupt NTFS filesystem
Citizen Bob wrote:
After getting corrupt NTFS volumes a couple times a day, including a BSOD, I have gone a couple days with nothing going wrong. That's because I used Perfect Disk to defrag both online and offline. I have noticed this before. I expect in about 3-5 days I will begin seeing the lone corruption followed in intensity by more and finally a BSOD or two before I defrag again and it all stops for about a week. What does that tell you about the cause of this? Nothing much. Your description is as vague as always, but it looks like its mostly varying with disk activity which isnt that surprising and not new info. Doesnt provide any useful information about the two obvious possibilitys, hardware problem or ****ed OS install. The real test for those two possibilitys has been spelt out endlessly now. |
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Citizen Bob wrote
(Citizen Bob) wrote After getting corrupt NTFS volumes a couple times a day, including a BSOD, I have gone a couple days with nothing going wrong. That's because I used Perfect Disk to defrag both online and offline. I have noticed this before. I expect in about 3-5 days I will begin seeing the lone corruption followed in intensity by more and finally a BSOD or two before I defrag again and it all stops for about a week. What does that tell you about the cause of this? I have gone several days without any corruption. No new info, you've had that before. I have cycled all three cloned disks. This is why I do not believe it's the removable drive bays. Thats a stupid way to test that possibility. Here's what I did: 1) I changed the pagefile to 512MB/1500MB per Kony's recommendation. It wont be that, its already FAR bigger than you need and wont be what is corrupting the MFT. 2) I ran PerfectDisk defragment both online and offline. In the past this has extended the period with no corruption. You have previously claimed that you can get corruption of the MFT just by running it. You cant have it both ways. 3) I have run CHKDSK without the F several times each day. Presumably you mean that it doesnt report any problems. Then you have confirmed that the corruption is occuring at boot or shutdown time, except for the corruption you claimed you produced by just running PD. 4) I changed the signature on each clone with Win98SE fdisk/mbr. I also deleted all the keys in HKLM/System/MountedDevices. Then I Installed the "new device" when Win2K was rebooted. That's it. Nothing else is different. I have run the same applications I always run. We already know that the fault is intermittent. This does not mean that corruption won't occur sometime soon. But for now there is absolutely no corruption whatsoever. Since you have gone that long without corruption in the past, that proves nothing. You have to test intermittent faults more rigorously than that, because they are intermittent. You've now wasted FAR more time than it would have taken to do the two basic tests that would at least distinguish between a hardware problem and a ****ed OS install, running with the drive directly connected and trying a clean install of XP on a spare hard drive using the files and settings transfer wizard. If you find that say the XP install works fine, you dont necessarily have to use it, you can decide that you have the proof that its a ****ed OS install and put more time into a clean 2K install if you want. |
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Citizen Bob wrote
(Citizen Bob) wrote I have gone several days without any corruption. I have cycled all three cloned disks. This is why I do not believe it's the removable drive bays. Now it's Nov. 11, and still no corruption NTFS partition. Have you tried repeatedly using PD the way you used to be able to produce corruption when JUST running that ? The only significant change I can think of was making the pagefile smaller - 512MB/1.5GB. Very unlikely to have been due to that and even you should be able to work out how to prove that now, by putting it back to what it used to be when you were getting corruption. I have cycled all three removable hard disks, so it is not the removeable bays causing the problem. You dont know that either. ALL you know is that is gone away for a week. Not unusual with a hardware problem. At least I avoided that merry chase. You dont know that either. Why does a larger pagefile cause a corrupt NTFS volume? You dont know that it does and its completely trivial to prove whether its that. I still believe its tied in with those two devices per hard disk partition. Based on absolutely nothing, as always. ALL you actually know is that those shouldnt be there. I am a bit surprised that no one has been able to figure out what is causing two devices to show up for each partition. Hardly surprising if it was what that ****ed mirror hardware produced when hardly anyone ever used that ****ed hardware approach. It sounds like something to do with mirroring. There is a special kind of mounting scheme used for mirroring but I forgot its name. Maybe that's what's going on - the partition is being used in this special way. And your nose was rubbed in how to prove if its that or not. But you're such a terminal bone head that you wont do the obvious tests. |
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