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Maxtor HD Problem...PLEASE help!!

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mchas

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Here's the scenario. I had an older K62 system with a 20gig Maxtor DiamondMax 40 HD. It was running fine. Recently, I put together a new computer, and I reformatted the HD and installed Windows 2000. It was running fine until a few days later, when I got this error that said windows could not load because the files in "winnt\system32\config\system" were either lost or corrupt. I then bought a new HD from IBM (the deskstar) and it works fine. So I got a replacement drive from Maxtor since it was still under warranty, and it has the SAME problem. I really don't want to keep this HD I bought, I'd rather have my old one work. I used the same cable with it as I did in my old computer, still same problem. I used Ghost to copy the IBM HD to this one, and it works fine until I shut down and start it up again a few minutes later. PLEASE give me any sort of ideas. Thank you all in advance!!

-Mark
 
Are your running the drive on a either a promise or highpoint based ATA66/100 controller? If so, there is a problem with these controllers under w2k. I have experienced this personally with a WD drive. It gets corrupted every several weeks. Only sure solution I know of now is to run these drives on the ATA33 controller -- you won't really see a speed difference anyways. I have also heard of people who said SP2 fixed there problem, but others say it does not. Usually you have either that file you mentioned, your profile, or the registry corrupted because of this.
 
Have you done all of the updates at windows update? It sounds like the Large drive cache problem. I think all versions of windows had a download for this. I know 98 did and I am pretty sure 2000 did as well.

On larger drives the cache is large and if windows shuts down too quick the cache won't get written to the drive.

One work around I have seen is to select restart instead of shut down then use the power button to shut off. This gives a couple of extra seconds to complete writing to the disk.
 
I am not using a RAID controller...I have a KK266, and I am just using the standard IDE0 controller. I have Windows 2000 SP2, so the large drive problem shouldt be an issue. The restart/power button is an interesting idea, I will try that. If there are any other ideas, please let me know...thanks!

-Mark

oh yea by the way - the IBM drive I tried to see if it was a problem with the Maxtor has a 2MB cache I think...so I don't understand why it would work with this drive and not the Maxtor..hm..?
 
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