Chkdsk

[Charizard_Fire_God]

*sigh* I should probably post this on an actual computer forum... ah well, tch, here goes. Harddrives: Westerd Digital 40GB, Western Digital 80GB, Maxtor. 1 Partition each. WD 80GB has a dynamic partition. Norton GoBack installed on WD 40GB. All 3 HDDs compressed with NTFS's option.

If I wanna run a check on Maxtor, it does one at startup. Then it leaves an uncompressed, corrupted bootex.log.

It's a vicious circle. Ta fix it chkdsk has ta run at startup. But if it runs at startup it writes to bootex.log, and even though it finds the error and fixes the index it's still writing to it, tch, so it remains corrupted. It's a vicious circle.

Ta fix it I gatta put in the WinXP CD and boot the Recovery Console. Then I run "chkdsk /p", then "del bootex.log", fixing the error without writing to the log. My partition table gets damaged and I have ta use Partition Table Doctor so I can see what's on it again.

Internet advice said that bootex.txt becomes corrupted if tha scan is interrupted. I scanned twice, no interruptions, same problem. I have WinXP SP2, and scanned my HDD for bad sectors, found none. Its wires are properly connected and I've had no issues with it.

So why is it that bootex.log is always corrupt on my Maxtor when I run a scandisk at startup??? My Maxtor driver is okay btw. And I cannot config write caching. Tch... driver seems ta handle it automatically. >.=.>

 

[Trip]

My guess would be that NTFS compression has something to do with it, though I really have nothing to back that guess up. It's possible that it scans and tries to write the log, not realizing that it's compressed or not being able to write compressed for whatever reason.

I'm not sure what to tell you to do about it; that's just my thought on the whole thing.

- Trip

 

[Charizard_Fire_God]

Trip: My other HDD hasn't displayed this problem.

Latios: 1. It's an ATA drive.
2. My chipset is SIS 645.

Tha Maxtor I use for my pagefile and lotsa storage, such as animes, OSTs, utillities, etc..

Dunno about SMART. I know I have it enabled in BIOS. o.=.o

1. I know it slows down tha system, that's why I didn't compress the Windows folder, tch, but hey, I saved an extra 20GB in total with it. ^.=.^
2. Encryption == useless. Me no use that.

 

[Charizard_Fire_God]

I was suspecting it's not hardware, tch, but Whinedow$... just thought ya might know something more about it than I do. Ah well, I can live without scandisk... or damage and re-repair my partition table everytime I wanna scan it. XD