Re: Crash Help-New Info

One frequent problem with the convert app is that the Fat32 disk should use 4K clusters for the format., and often Fat32 from older Windows do not.

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Mark L. Ferguson

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"Frank" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:epoonX2aIHA.748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The problem with reviewing the Event Log is that when I have a "crash" both my hard drives are "empty"/no file structure, so I have to Restore to a previous backup.

The system has been running for about 6 hours now in Safe Mode Windows.
I got to thinking.... NTFS is supposed to be better, so I converted from FAT32 to NTFS...
Well almost.. My D: drive converted... for my C: (system) drive, it cranked away for hours and finally came up Still at FAT32.
(space is not a problem... only using 50g our of 300g)
The NTFS Conversion of drive C: was run when Windows was restarting so there should have been no conflicts.
I went to MS KB to see if there was a NTFS conversion logfile to see what might have happened but did not find any reference.

I think this is some kind of data problem but each time I restore I run CHKDSK and there are no problems.
Any recommendations for a super heavy duty Disk "scanner" (besides Norton)?
Chance of a hardware controller problem seems to be slim because I can do all the Restores and Backups with no errors.
Wonder if I should Repair Windows from the CD?

Thrashing about I know... but this is frustrating not being able to fix this problem.



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