Re: Truncating badly linked attribute records? (long but quite detailed)
From: Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 02/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:52:11 -0500
Dude, the physical drive platters themselves are giving up the "ghost" or
put plainly, no longer able to hold its 1 state, as computers write
everything as a series of 0's and 1's, 0 is off, and 1 is on. Chuck it,
since you got a new one, or if you think it has some type of warranty left,
complete to the manufacturer.
-- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! "Google is your Friend!" www.google.com *********************************************** "Tech dude" <electrik_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:#oeGJd4GFHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Hey everyone, > > I've been having some problems with an external hard drive. > > It's an external drive, connected over Firewire. I have an adaptec FireWire > 4300 controller. The enclosure is running an Oxford 911 chipset. It's the > only FireWire device I have, and the cable is a shielded cable, no more than > 6' long. > > My OS is WinXP SP2 Pro. My system is an AMD 2200+ with 768 MB of RAM. > > On this drive (f:\), I have several folders, including a folder (f:\burned > MP3), which has sub folders (CD1, CD2, ..all the way to CD7). > > Every few days, I get a warning icon in my system tray about an NTFS errors. > There was an error reading a folder on f:\burned mp3\ and it;s on the the > folders there, but which folder changes (some days it;s "CD1" some days > it's "CD2" , etc...) > > I can see most of the folders on my hard drive, except for subfolders of one > folder. > > I do a chkdsk /f/r and it fixes the errors, but stating "Truncating badly > linked attribute records" with a number that is never the same. > > After that, my files come back. > > Then a few days later, the errors happen again, but always the same > subfolders within a common folder (f:\burned mp3\cd1, cd2, cd3, etc). > > I have other folders in the root of that drive and I have no errors with > those at all, only in f:\Burned MP3\. > > So I took the drive out of the enclosure and ran Maxtors PowerMax extended > tests on it..no errors on the disk or with the controller on the disk. > > I copied all the data to another drive, formatted that one and copied the > data back...the errors come back > > I tried a new Firewire cable..the errors still come back > > I updated the firmware in the enclosure..the errors still come back. > > Did a full virusscan and spyware scan..nothing found. > > I applied this patch from Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885222) > ..the errors still came back > > Since it's a removable drive, I tried making adjustments to whether or not > disk caching is enabled (in the device manager) and that made no difference. > > I Googled the error and one entry said it could be bad RAM, so I borrowed a > copy of Microscope from work > (http://www.micro2000.com/microscope_suite/index.php) and ran hardware diags > on my PC for 12 hours...no hardware errors to be found. > > I replaced the IDE cable in the external enclosure...the errors still came > back. > > At this point, I am quickly running out of possibilities as to what the > problem may be. The Firewire card and enclosure have run flawlessly for over > a year, so while it's possible that there is an issue with them, I'd be VERY > suprised. > > I've included the chkdsk output, and the entries from the event log. > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do? I've also posted this to > microsoft.public.windowsxp.general > > Thanks > > > The output of chkdsk is: > > CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)... > Truncating badly linked attribute records > from file record segment 693. > Truncating badly linked attribute records > from file record segment 22899. > Truncating badly linked attribute records > from file record segment 39347. > File verification completed. > CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)... > Index verification completed. > CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)... > Security descriptor verification completed. > CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... > File data verification completed. > CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... > Free space verification is complete. > Windows has made corrections to the file system. > > 60042905 KB total disk space. > 31972800 KB in 39068 files. > 15712 KB in 3910 indexes. > 0 KB in bad sectors. > 110805 KB in use by the system. > 65536 KB occupied by the log file. > 27943588 KB available on disk. > > 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. > 15010726 total allocation units on disk. > 6985897 allocation units available on disk. > > > > The Event log (System) states: > > Event Type: Error > Event Source: Ntfs > Event Category: Disk > Event ID: 55 > Date: 2/25/2005 > Time: 4:26:58 PM > User: N/A > Computer: MYPC > Description: > The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run > the chkdsk utility on the volume F:. > > For more information, see Help and Support Center at > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. > Data: > 0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 4e 00 ......N. > 0008: 02 00 00 00 37 00 04 c0 ....7..À > 0010: 00 00 00 00 32 00 00 c0 ....2..À > 0018: 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > >
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