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Frustrated! XP shut down corrupting ntfs.sys HELP!

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LarryJoe

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I am going on my fourth brand new hard drive in the last 2 months. My system is 100% stable and I leave it running 24x7. The problem arrises out of the blue upon a shut down/restart. XP starts to boot back up and then, bam, BSOD referencing a corrupt NTFS.SYS file system. There is no way to repair XP, requiring a format. I had been running RAID 0 and the last time this happened, I could not even format the hard drives. I had to RMA them. I decided to give up on RAID 0 to see if this was the problem and put a brand new Maxtor 40GB drive in alone and this morning, the same thing happened. This has got to be the most frustrating thing I have ever had to trouble shoot. I am hoping I can format this drive when I get home tonight and go thorugh the pain of reinstalling. These are the things I am going to try:

1
Replace the IDE cable with a new one.

2
Try FAT32 instead of NTFS. At least this will allow me to use Ghost again so I can make an image.

3
Look for something in XP to tweak.

I really think this is an XP shut down write problem. I vaguely remember some problems in this area posted by others. Is there a fast shut down or something I can disable? If so, where?

Any help appreciated. This really sucks.

Thanks,

LJ
 
I also had the same problem when I made the migration from Win98 to 2K. The NTFS.sys would get corrupted about a quarter of the time after reboot. I use keep a burnt copy of Win2k on my desk handy to replace the corrupted file from the recovery console to get it running again. My problem stemmed from having the boot drive on a Promise Ultra 66 controller. Running the boot drive off a non Intel/ Via controller was the common denominator amoung us all that where having the problem at the time. You can replace the corrupted files using the recovery console. You can also reinstall XP on top of a previous installation. I would try moving your boot drive to your primary controller and get it of the Highpoint controller. I would also ditch those rounded cables. I have had file corruption problems using them in the past. I now just fold up the excess cable and bind it with a rubber band. I just push the cables to the side of the case so I still have good airflow in the case.

Rain
 
Rain,

Thanks. I am not using rounded cables, but I do have my boot drive on the HTP controller. I really could use some help with the recovery console commands. I know nothing here. Also, for the life of me, I have not found a way to reinstall XP over itself. It always wants to format or put on another partition.

HELP! PM me please.

Joe
 
Larryjoe, Just boot from the XP cd and press the R key at the setup screen. You can then press the C key if you want to go into the recovery console and just delete the NTFS.sys and extract a new copy from the cd. Its all done from a Dos emulation command line. You can also just run the repair option and it will replace all the files needed to boot into XP and then repair some of the damaged ones. I also believe that you can just install over a existing installation of XP by just running the setup and at the format stage it will see the existing installation and give you the option to skip the format process and let you choose the partition you want to install on. you could also just install a temp install of XP on another partition to be on the safe side and extract you data of the fubared install then run the setup from Windows and point the installation to the first install. Also you can save a XP NTFS partition to a Ghost image with the lasest version of Ghost. The only catch is that is has to be stored on a FAT partition or drive or also can be saved to CDFS. Im sorry that I can not PM all this but the PM or search function does not work for me anymore. No I am not a subscriber or wish to subscribe. I have not been over here in over a month and just poped in since its a slow day over at HTF and AVS. If you have any more questions, just email me.


Rain
 
I don't think so. I have seen this problem posted before by ithers. I moved my boot drive to the intel controller and reinstalled XP. Fingers crossed. The system is 150% stable. Prime95, 3DMark loop etc. I am not even pushing it to the max.

Someone mentioned on another formum that the CPU is so fast, that shut down may be happening too fast. Hoping the intel ide controller handles this better than the hpt370.
 
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