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MS fix corrupted HDD!

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DJFuji

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ok i bought a 160gig drive and tried to enable 48bit LBA support in WinXP Pro SP1. So i go to the MS website and read up on it. I download the fix at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;331958 and install the exe. It tells me to reboot and when i do, windows XP comes up corrupted. First thing i noticed was that the user select screen doesnt come up. Instead, i see the "classic" win2k style logon. So i login and the startmenu is completely corrupt. The tray is funky colors, the start buton is completely missing, and 95% of my applications give me an unknown error when i try to start them. Can't access msconfig or regedit, either.

Actually, what it looks like is a corrupt windows 2000 skin applied to XP. All the XP special graphics effects have been replaced with windows 2000 style buttons and menus. The green start button is gone, and all the menus look like 2000.

Now before all this i did a couple of things:

1) enabled LBA in the registry
2) updated Promise UDMA100 controller BIOS

however, i did a restart after both of these things, and things were fine, except for the fact that windows still couldn't see the whole drive. (Controller card BIOS could, though).

I can open windows explorer and IE (which is where im writing this from), but a lot of other apps are corrupt. GUI for windows seems to be corrupt as well. Anyone know anything about this?
 
Darren,

I have problems with XP and my brand new 160GD HD also. Somewhat similar it seems to what you have. Installed XP (home) + SP1 and all the other fixes that are out there. Also installed a special MS patch to fix disk becoming corrupt with LBA 48 adressing and going into hibernation (I think).

My sympoms are: during startup system always wants to do chkdsk. No errors showup. Then further in the boot procedure I get the XP logon screen (also got the win2k style once !) followed by a gazileon errors telling me that XP cannot write changes to file XXXXX to the disk (it seems every system file XP touches generates this error).
All I can do afterwards is reboot.

Did you try booting in safe-mode? That works for me (apart from the chkdsk problem). I found that (in my case) the problem goes away when I go to the System Control Panel and in the performance section change the memory item from 'System Cache' to 'Program'.

Another thing that seems to affect this (not sure but it seemed like it) is turning on 32-bit addressing for your disk in the BIOS. (as in 32-bit enabled seems to make it worse). Another thing I noticed is that my HDD performance seems to be too slow (8MB/s on a copy).

I logged a SR with MS, no respons yet. I'f be very intersted if you find any solution for this.

BTW config is:
- ASUS P4C800 deluxe
- P4 2800
- Radeon 9800 pro 128MB
- Seagate SATA 160GB

I have a hunch it may have something to do with either the Xp installation (not the right order?) or perhaps some seagate firmware I didn't install. I just haven't had the heart yet as tinkering with any of this means a complete reinstall of XP....

Good luck!

Johan


 
I know you updated the Promise bios but did you update it's drivers as well? Here's the page for the TX2 model link and as you can see the 03/28/2003 drivers state "This FastTrak100 TX2 Windows Driver will allow for 48-bit LBA support, when used in combination with FastTrak100 TX2 BIOS v2.00.0.24." If you have one of the other model controller cards check for updated drivers that adress the issue too.
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I know you updated the Promise bios but did you update it's drivers as well? Here's the page for the TX2 model link and as you can see the 03/28/2003 drivers state "This FastTrak100 TX2 Windows Driver will allow for 48-bit LBA support, when used in combination with FastTrak100 TX2 BIOS v2.00.0.24." If you have one of the other model controller cards check for updated drivers that adress the issue too.
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Actually, i thought that WIN XP Pro SP1 didn't need that driver update. I downloaded the "100" version because the underside of the PCI card says "maxtor Ultra100" or something like that, but doens't mention a "TX2" or anything. I tried installing the driver, but XP told me the new driver was not needed and wouldn't be installed. So then i updated BIOS. Rebooted, and everything was fine, except i still couldnt' see the full capacity.

Then i tried reading the MS site on this issue, and it said something about a fix i had to apply as well to prevent corruption in hibernation mode.

Link

i installed it, rebooted, and that's when the problems started occurring. Strangest thing i've ever seen.

Specs:

IWill KK266 (non raid) + Athlon "C" syle (133fsb) 1.2 Ghz
768 MB Crucial CAS2 PC133
GeForce 32mb GTS2
Two 40gb drives, one 160gb drive (maxtor ultra 160) attached via Ultra100 controller card (after BIOS reflash it supports 48bit LBA, i.e. >137gb)
Windows XP SP1


I may have installed the wrong BIOS, but if that was the case, the card wouldn't have picked up the full 160 gigs on bootup. It would have hung there. It seems to be a problem with the hotfix.
 
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