Re: CHKDSK went crazy on 200GB HD upon install!

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:08:47 -0500

I would suggest creating a "slipstreamed version" of Windows XP
with SP2 and perform a "clean install". The primary partition for
Windows XP should be at least 5% of your total hard drive, or 10GB.
You'll need to delete all existing partitions first before creating the
10GB (use 10240 to get a true 10GB partition) (10 x 1024).

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

Information on AutoStreamer 1.0
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0&#entry245

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens] 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"SurferBoy" wrote:
| With the release of WinXP SP2, I decided to do a clean 
| reinstall.  Oh, I wish I could go back in time to stop 
| myself!
| 
| My system:  60GB master HD (2 partitions), 200GB slave (1 
| partition) on a Promise Ultra100TX2 PCI controller card.  
| NTFS file system.
| 
| 1.  Ghosted the 60GB drive (actually just the 8GB c: 
| partition) to the 200GB drive.
| 2.  Reinstalled WinXP Pro.  Installation went without a 
| hitch.
| 3.  Upon the first boot into Windows, chkdsk came up and 
| ran on the 200GB hard drive.  Chkdsk went CRAZY, spewing 
| a huge list of index errors and recovering orphaned files 
| and various other things.  The screen was scrolling like 
| mad.  My heart sank.
| 4.  Upon completion of the WinXP setup, I looked at the 
| 200GB HD in Windows explorer.  About 20GB or more of 
| stuff that was on the 200GB drive is missing.  And much 
| of the stuff that IS there is now corrupted (including 
| the ghosted image of the c: drive!).
| 
| Here's what I think happened:
| Unbeknownst to me, bare WinXP (without at least SP1) does 
| not support hard disks greater than 137GB.  Apparently 
| though, not only does it not support the drives, it 
| actually attacks them;  I think it chewed up the Master 
| File Table (MFT) or partition structure or something of 
| the kind.  The file data is probably all still there on 
| the HD, but the pointers to the data have all been 
| screwed up.  I disconnected the 200GB drive and finished 
| the installation to SP2.
| 
| Now, I'm stuck and don't know how best to proceed.  I 
| don't want to make the problem any worse.  I googled 
| around, and I have yet to find a solution.  I'm actually 
| surprised this hasn't happened more often to people.  I 
| have found some similar stories, such as, for instance, 
| http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=31921
| 
| Do I:
| 1.  Re-connect the drive in WinXP SP2 and run scandisk or 
| Norton Disk Doctor to try to recover the original disk 
| structure?  (I seriously doubt this will work)
| 2.  Do I try some data recovery program like Ontrack Data 
| Recovery or GetDataBack?
| 3.  Do I try some low-level program to try to 
| reconstruct, like SpinRite?
| 4.  Is my "greater than 137 GB" theory about what caused 
| the long list of checkdisk problems even "correct"?
| 
| Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

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