Re: Indexing errors when checking XPPro on NTFS Partition

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 06:51:31 -0500

You are running ver 5.10 Nvidia motherboard drivers for your Nvidia board?

I have found that I get better performance and less logical disk corruption
if I also install the Nvidia I.D.E. drivers. 

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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Lori Ann Kuiper" <loriak25@netnitco.net> wrote in message 
news:OcNggzj9EHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I have several partitions on IDE Western Digital 120GB Hard Drive on my PC 
>running Windows XP Professional with SP2.  Hard drive is running on SATA1 
>built in port using a Serielle2 converter, C is Fat32, D is DVD RW/CD RW 
>combo on IDE1, XP is installed on Partition E and F and G are used for 
>storage.  My PC is homebuilt Jan 2004 with Abit NF7-Sv2.0 motherboard/512 
>Ram DDR/Barton 2500+ AMD processor running at stock speeds/floppy/Microsoft 
>Office keyboard on PS2 port with USB to PS2 converter/MS Trackball Optical 
>on PS2 mouse port using USB to PS2 converter/Diamond Stealth S80 (ATI 
>compatible) 128DDR video card  Running newest NVIDIA motherboard drivers 
>and newest ATI video drivers/Creative v92 voice fax modem.  Windows SP2 
>with all updates loaded.No cooling problems as long as I do not overclock.
>
> When I have XP run a disk check the Fat32 partition is always fine with no 
> errors.  All of the NTFS partitions always show from 2-50 minor 
> inconsistency indexing errors that are always corrected.  The number of 
> errors seems to depend on how long I wait between checking the drive--more 
> time between checking means more errors appearing on NTFS partitions only.
>
> I have tried re-formatting and even wrote 0's to the hard drive before 
> reloading Windows.  Have also tried using only NTFS partitions and then I 
> seem to have more errors yet.  The hard drive was new when installed and 
> is also 1 year old.  I have another PC which is older that also has a 
> Western Digital drive and always shows the same type of indexing errors 
> i.e.... 7 unused index entries from index $Sll of file 0x9 and 7 unused 
> index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
>
> What could possibly be causing this corruption on the NTFS partitions and 
> how do I fix it?
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