Re: NTFS files corrupted with chksk

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"steola" <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Had a quite unpleasant experience, I was wondering if I could get some
> directions...
> I have a Maxtor Hard Drive 160G partitioned as 2 logical drives and
> NTFS formatted with Windows 2000 SP4. It worked fine for about 3
> months. Recently I ran a Digital Video software which looked fairly
> I/O intensive. Had 3 NTFS crashes in span of 2 days, recorded in
> System Log as "Drive unrecognizable- Event 5", immediately followed
> by chkdsk at reboot. Even if chkdsk took a lot of time finished
> "successfully", but the major surprise was that all files (zip, doc,
> pdf, exe ...) were internally corrupted and completely unrecognizable!
> After this I downloaded a hard drive test from Maxtor which completed
> successful. Does this point to hardware or software issue? Should I
> "blame" my video software?
> Surprised to find little information on Web regarding this "virus
> like" behavior for chkdsk.
>
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