Re: not accessible due to inpage error" <-- Why is this happening?

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Will Pittenger wrote:
Today, this starting happening. This morning it was working fine.
This drive is a brand new partition on a new Western Digital 640 GB
USB 2.0 drive. The partition is my backups drive and it would help
if I could get it working again.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP3. The change appears to have
happened while I was running a backup to the drive. About then,
Windows BSODed for possibly unrelated reasons.

I should also noted that since I first hooked up the new drive,
Windows has been reporting that it had to replace registry files
with backups. I don't know if that is related or not; just that it
has been happening since the drive was installed.

The partition was created with my GParted LiveCD. I used it
because all other partitioners I could have used were giving up
during the format. That was due to the old partition getting
corrupted due to events outside Windows.

Since I created the partition, I have place on it a 30 GB file that
is a backup of my boot partition. That took all day to write out
there and I don't want to lose it.

Two things - no idea if the BSOD/registry settings requests is related.
Could be - if the new drive came with a virus/trojan/something. Could be
just coincidence and your machine was dying all along. Could be that's why
you got the drive - to backup befor complete death of the machine. Unsure -
you left out some vital information there (like what the BSOD said, what
registry settings were trying to be replaced, etc.)

In any case - since you said "The partition was created with my GParted
LiveCD. I used it because all other partitioners I could have used were
giving up during the format. That was due to the old partition getting
corrupted due to events outside Windows." <-- you want to explain that?
Sounds like you could have dmaged the *new* drive.

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