Re: Chkdsk errors in SP2 installation
From: Steve Nielsen (steve_nielsen_at_nunya.biz.nes)
Date: 10/01/04
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:16:44 -0700
Sam wrote:
> I've had a problem which is driving me nuts. It all started about 2
> weeks ago when I'd occasionally get an error in the Event Viewer that
> would say: Event ID 55, "The file system structure on the disk is
> corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:."
> So last week I repartitioned/formatted and reinstalled Windows XP-pro.
> This is on a year-old Maxtor 120mb HD that's partitioned into two
> sections. Windows is on the first partition (that's the one I
> reformatted). I haven't touched the second partition.
>
> Well this week I start getting that same message again... not all the
> time, but just once in awhile. So I run chkdsk from the command prompt
> and it says there's errors. chkntfs says the disk is not dirty. Using
> the Error Checker in the disk Properties/Tools says the disk is OK.
> I've run chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r multiple times and still come up with
> some ugly type errors. Below are some examples run from the Windows
> command prompt, from 3 different times:
>
>>CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
>>Deleting index entry 15-cz9q.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
>>Deleting index entry 15-dy9p.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
>>Deleting index entry 15-ex9o.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
>>Deleting index entry 15-fw9n.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
>>Index verification completed.
>
> (I've had this identical result twice after running chkdsk /f)
>
>
>>CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
>>Security descriptor verification completed.
>>Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
>>Windows found problems with the file system.
>
>
>>CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
>>Recovering orphaned file 15-pfE2h.tmp (100278) into directory file 102629.
>>CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
>>Security descriptor verification completed.
>>Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
>>CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
>>Windows found problems with the file system.
>
>
> So I've run the Powermax utility from Maxtor and it said the disk is
> certified error free. That means that the disk should be physically OK
> at least. So, what's causing the NTFS errors? There seems to be
> something with "file 102629" that seems to pop up over and over again.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sam
I suggest testing RAM using Memtest86 and also test all the system
hardware using manufacturer's diagnostics if you can. Something is
corrupting the file system.
Steve
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