Heres an interesting problem I'm having --
When I shut down my computer, and shut off my power supply (you know, switch at the back), win2k fails to boot, saying some folder in the system dir is missing or corrupted. But, when I just shut down the computer and shut it off from the main power switch, but leave the power supply alone, everything works fine.
Heres the setup:
300W PSU
DFI AK-75EC
Maxtor 30gb ATA-100
Win2k Professionnal
128mb PC133
AMD Tbird 1.13
C: - WIN2K - 1.5 GB - FAT16
D: - APPS - 8.5 GB - FAT32
E: - DATA - 20 GB - FAT32
I have recreated this problem on two occasions, once with C: being FAT32 and once as FAT16. I'm not sure if that matters; logically, it shouldnt. On both occasions, Win2k reported the exact same directory as missing. So, either the same dir was deled/corrupted each time, or it was the first of many deled/corrupted dirs and was simply the first to be checked.
The easiest way I've found to fix this is just to run win2k's fast repair process with an emergency repair disk (thats another thing -- win2k setup wont find the previous version of win2k installed) and have it do its thing. When I get back into the os, all of my drivers are dumped and need to be reinstalled.
None of my other programs seem to have been affected by this, only win2k. Well, I shouldnt say that -- sometimes when I reboot and the disks are checked, files used by mIRC, which live on D:, are found to be referenced improperly in the file allocation table, and are thus truncated to match their FAT entry. However, this may be caused by mIRC itself not closing them properly, because I halted an FTP download before it was done and chkdsk complained about that as well.
I know I seem vague and disjoined, but I'm trying to cram as much info about what's going on as possible.
And I hope this is some stupid problem I can fix without spending any cash
-anth
When I shut down my computer, and shut off my power supply (you know, switch at the back), win2k fails to boot, saying some folder in the system dir is missing or corrupted. But, when I just shut down the computer and shut it off from the main power switch, but leave the power supply alone, everything works fine.
Heres the setup:
300W PSU
DFI AK-75EC
Maxtor 30gb ATA-100
Win2k Professionnal
128mb PC133
AMD Tbird 1.13
C: - WIN2K - 1.5 GB - FAT16
D: - APPS - 8.5 GB - FAT32
E: - DATA - 20 GB - FAT32
I have recreated this problem on two occasions, once with C: being FAT32 and once as FAT16. I'm not sure if that matters; logically, it shouldnt. On both occasions, Win2k reported the exact same directory as missing. So, either the same dir was deled/corrupted each time, or it was the first of many deled/corrupted dirs and was simply the first to be checked.
The easiest way I've found to fix this is just to run win2k's fast repair process with an emergency repair disk (thats another thing -- win2k setup wont find the previous version of win2k installed) and have it do its thing. When I get back into the os, all of my drivers are dumped and need to be reinstalled.
None of my other programs seem to have been affected by this, only win2k. Well, I shouldnt say that -- sometimes when I reboot and the disks are checked, files used by mIRC, which live on D:, are found to be referenced improperly in the file allocation table, and are thus truncated to match their FAT entry. However, this may be caused by mIRC itself not closing them properly, because I halted an FTP download before it was done and chkdsk complained about that as well.
I know I seem vague and disjoined, but I'm trying to cram as much info about what's going on as possible.
And I hope this is some stupid problem I can fix without spending any cash
-anth
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