Re: NTFS Corruption?

Interesting alright.

The harddrive functions, because you can access files and play videos...
Diagnostics and chkdsk show nothing wrong.

The CD drive and motherboard function, because you can boot an Ubuntu live
disc

XP cd's won't boot however, so something on the harddrive is interfering
with XP. Malware perhaps, or some low-level driver or virtual device.
Maxtor's harddrive overlay software maybe? Or something on the drive created
by Linux?

If you can substitute a different harddrive in place of the one that's
acting strangely I'd first try installing XP clean onto that, just to
eliminate the possiblity that the problem stems from any of the other
hardware in the computer.

If it comes to it, you might be able to avoid a complete harddrive wipe and
reformat by using some partitioning software to create a new D: partition to
put your user files in, then wipe and reformat the C: partition for a clean
XP install. The partitioning software might also show up existing
irregularities, if any.



"Stephan Rose" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:WdGdnabrE99KkD_bRVnyiQA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:54:43 -0700, Ron Martell wrote:

Stephan Rose <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Ran it, everything is peachy hardware wise as I pretty much expected. The
drive is fairly new maxtor, less than a year old. I'd have really been
surprised if it had found hardware errors. My experience with Maxtor has
generally always been very good.

Have you ran the Maxtor diagnostics on the drive?

Yea I just did earlier, everything came back just fine.

Most likely I am just going to have to reinstall XP which now presents me
with a new interesting problem.

XP CD won't boot! Tried more than one...I have enough of those things to
stack them like AOL disks.

The drive though is fine as I use it daily to watch DVDs, plus the maxtor
diagnostic CD booted fine, plus my ubuntu live CDs also boot fine.

XP However, no matter what, the install CD will not boot. It asks me if I
want to boot from CD, then followed by a short bit of CD activity, and
then nothing. Since multiple XP CDs do this...not a CD problem such as a
scratch either.

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Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6

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