Re: CHKDSK went crazy on 200GB HD upon install!
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Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:15:32 -0700
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in the original post. I
did complete the WinXP clean install and installed SP2.
My problem is with the 200GB slave disk, which was
corrupted by chkdsk when WinXP was in its original pre-
SP1 state. Currently, I have the 200GB drive
disconnected, as I do not want to do any further damage
until I know how best to proceed. So to summarize: I
want to correct the corruption that chkdsk caused on the
200GB drive during the first (pre-SP1) bootup.
Thanks!
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
>Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.
aspx
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
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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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