Windows 2000 has corrupted itself 13 times in 4 and half weeks, please help me.

That actually sounds promising, I'll try that as well, thanks.

It's been two days and so far everything is fine! I think that reg value did the trick, just comin back to report the findings and to thank you guys for helping me, thanks a lot =)

Well done to Mictlantecuhtli then!

First off all i'm sorry to kick a 2 month old topic,

I was googling around when i found this forum with almost the same problem i got, only i'm running Windows XP Media Center with SP2 and my SATA (200GB Driver Western DIGITAL) keeps giving $MFT Is corrupt and you know the deal.

It started to act like that since i had it for about a month, i tried everything that was possible to find for me, and it was running fine! until an hour back i started to make a backup of the data on the drive so it started with the burn process but after 7% Completed it gave me that *peep* error again so first Nero crashed and after that also the HDD Disappeard i really don't understand a thing of it, i asked it at several PC Shops and they all told me they guess the HDD had his longest time (It's not even a year old)

My PC Specs are this:

CPU: P4 3.06 GHZ (HT)
Vid: ATi Radeon 9600 128MB
Mem: DRR 512 MB (Soon gonna be more)
HDD1: Western Digital 160GB (ATA)
HDD2: Maxtor 120GB (ATA)
HDD3: Western Digital 200GB (SATA, the problem one)

I hope some-one of you here is able to help me, because it's also damn hard to get the files of the HDD cause it seems to keep crashing, otherwise ill just return it to the shop and try to get a new one!

Thanks in Advance!

After a reboot my daughters PC came up with a ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt error. I tried fixboot, fixmbr and booted from the XP cd and did a repair, but it did it again time after time. The drive in her PC was purchased less than a year ago. I downloaded the maxtor drive diagnostic and ran it on the drive. It failed the test and gave me a number to enter on the rma form. The rma was refused because the drive was more than a year old. Must be from date of manufacture? Anyway I had nothing to loose so I did a low level format with maxtor software. The drive then passed several repeated tests. :bounce: I formated it installed windows and my daughter has been using it for almost a month now with no problems. You should be able to download the programs to do this on your drive from the drive makers site. If it passes you will have ruled it out. If it doesn't then you can chck to see if you can RMA (return) it under warranty.

me too... but here's the fix

I had the same problems as well.

for me it was the win2k inability to handle harddrives larger than 128GB (binary)

1. Basically install win2k on a smaller partition and then grow it using something like partition magic
2. slipstream 2k with SP4


several fixes out there.

here's from microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

here's another good post.
http://www.dansdata.com/danletters147b.htm

What kind of OS lets itself overwrite system files?

g$

i also have the same kind of problem :

I have a seagate 7200.8 250g and W2K was installed this way :

1. boot and install from CDROM (SP2) : i create a 50g partition at the begining then install W2KSP2 on it : that's system partition C
2. i upgrade W2KSP2 to W2KSP4
3. now W2K can handle the whole drive so i create a 200g partition for data on the rest of the disk : that's data partition D

everything worked fine during 2 months. But a few days ago the whole system partition (C) went nuts : MFT corrupted, lost almost everything on it, refused to boot. But data partition (D) is just fine...
Note : windows itself did not crashed : no BSOD, everything kept running but i could not access any file on the systme partition (it said : "file corrupted, run chkdsk, etc.)
I had to reformat it, reinstalled, W2K (SP2 -> SP4 : same as above). And after a few hours it crashed again... and again.

I tried all i could :
- change IDE ribbon
- don't use nVidia IDE drivers, just MS ones
- test disk integrity with seatools (OK) and RAM with memtest (OK)
- checked the whole system and data after reinstall with several antiviruses (Nod32 and AVG free) : nothing

I was begining to think of some harware flaw in the MOBO IDE Controller or something that nasty...
Now, i read what you say and i am thinking of something :
the crash always happen while i am using emule which writes on the data partition (D) only.

Could it be that i reached the 137g limit and because of some black magic, instead of writing on the D partion, it writes at the begining of the C partition and destroys the MFT ? That just sounds crazy but i feel so helpless right now :-(
Moreover since the D partition was created with SP4 it should be ok but you never know...

Any comments appreciated...

regards

Laurent

Config :

- Gigabyte K8N-F9 (upgraded to bios F11 with "optimal" (ie factory) settings)
- Athlon 3200+
- ASUS 6600 128Mo
- 2x512 Mo RAM CORSAIR
- IDE Controller 1 :
- HDD Seagate 7200.8 250g UDMA100 master
- HDD Seagate 5700.? 80g UDMA66 slave
- IDE Controller 2 :
- CDRW (can't remember the brand right now) master
- DVDRW LG slave