E_tron
04-01-05, 11:06 AM
Here is the situation, i have 3 data storage drives: 120GB WD, 160GB seagate, and a 200GB seagate all formated NTFS. Until recently, Microsoft still provided current windows updates for WindowsXP SP1. Since SP2 is annoying and enables features i don't want, i reverted the machine back to Windows 2000 SP4(all of the bootable O/S's are on a seperate drive from the storage drives). As soon as i did, windows2000 always comes up during the boot sequence asking to check the file system on the 160GB seagate. As soon as it does, it will orphan every file it touches and files are forgoten by the file system(but not deleted). It's like the files are still there, but their space isn't reserved(so, when i write data to the drive who knows what the new file will overwrite).
From what i know, the only solution is to migrate all the data to another drive, repartition and reformat the drive, and bring all the data back. Does anybody know anything better? Should i make the partition Primary or Logical?
This has happened with the 200GB drive as well. About 4 months ago, it had the exact same problem (but i was still using WinXP SP1). Does anybody know what could be causing the file systems to orphan files?
From what i know, the only solution is to migrate all the data to another drive, repartition and reformat the drive, and bring all the data back. Does anybody know anything better? Should i make the partition Primary or Logical?
This has happened with the 200GB drive as well. About 4 months ago, it had the exact same problem (but i was still using WinXP SP1). Does anybody know what could be causing the file systems to orphan files?