Hi, it seems as if it's one problem after another, but I think this is serious. I want to thank anyone whose checking this thread out and give even more thanks to anyone out there who has some ideas about it.
I'm going to try and give the short but detailed version of what happened.
Here are my specs
OS: Windows 2000 Pro (w/SP4)
Processor: Athlon 64 3400+
Motherboard: Asus K8V SE Deluxe
Memory: 2x512Mb Corsair PC3200 XMS
Hard Drive: Western Digital SE Caviar 250 gig HD
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128Mb)
Optical Drive: Plextor px-708a DVD R/W & a Sony CRX230E CD R/W that reads but can't burn
Soundcard: Soundblaster Audilogy 2 ZS
Ok, so heres some more things that may or may not be relevant.
Along time ago, about when I had re-installed Windows the second time, alot of my data was lost on my second WD 250 gig Hard Drive because the second Hard Drive was partitioned as a Dynamic Drive and when I re partitioned the main hard drive and Reinstalled Windows, the second hard drive was read as a Unreadable disk in disk management. ok I can deal with that, so I got GetDataBack for NTFS V 2.25 and it found the disk Windows said was unreadable and all the data is still there, yay!
Now, heres the problem, when pulling the data off the unreadable disk, I was pulling some files and bam, a big red circle with an X pops up and says C:\ corrupted, please run chkdsk followed by many other messages like C:\$mft corrupt, please run chkdsk, just ALOT of messages saying they were corrupted and to run chkdsk, I restarted my computer to run chkdsk and it tells me error loading operating system, so ok, I have reformat the primary hard drive (C:\)and reinstal Windows for ANYTHING to work.
I thought maybe that some files on the other hard drive caused this, BUT then I got some disks in the mail with some games, it was MAME .81 with 22 gigs of stuff on 6 DVD's, when I tried instaling that it started ok, but on the 3rd disk, same thing C:\ corrupted, run chkdsk followed by many others like it. So it seems to be happening when transfering large files
Now, speed up to this point, I've had to delete my partition, reformat the drive, and reinstall Windows 2000 with SP4 like 13 times now, I'm pretty sick of it, what's causing my C:\ to corrupt itself when moving files either from the unreadable Hard drive to the good one or moving files from CD Rom files to my readable healthy drive Hard Drive?
So any ideas would help,I think I should be able to have all the old files I had back from my AMD Athlon 1800XP days working on this new rig, but Windows keeps corrupting itself and I don't know why whenI try to move stuff over
Some other messages I get are WindowsMedia Corrupt, run chkdsk, and the list goes on and on, nothing in Windows works after that first fatal red X message.
I thought it might be a Memory issue, so I ran MemTest86 v3.1 and after passing all the test 3 times with no errors, I don't think it's that.
by the way
Mem86 stats
Athlon 64 2203 Mhz
L1 Cache 128k 18054 Mb/s
L2 Cache 1024k 3990 Mb/s
Memory 1023m 1433MB/s
Testing 80k-1023m 1023m
Pass:3
Error: 0
I've also ran Western Digitals Lifegaurd Utility and my hard drive passed
I've read something about having a 9800 Pro video card with Catylst drivers, having more than 512Mbs of Ram, and a Hard Drive bigger than 120 gigs causes something like this, but I'm still foggy on the whole thing and could use some more info, but I think that only applies to Win XP.
There has to be a logical reason for this, any ideas?
Thanks
I'm going to try and give the short but detailed version of what happened.
Here are my specs
OS: Windows 2000 Pro (w/SP4)
Processor: Athlon 64 3400+
Motherboard: Asus K8V SE Deluxe
Memory: 2x512Mb Corsair PC3200 XMS
Hard Drive: Western Digital SE Caviar 250 gig HD
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128Mb)
Optical Drive: Plextor px-708a DVD R/W & a Sony CRX230E CD R/W that reads but can't burn
Soundcard: Soundblaster Audilogy 2 ZS
Ok, so heres some more things that may or may not be relevant.
Along time ago, about when I had re-installed Windows the second time, alot of my data was lost on my second WD 250 gig Hard Drive because the second Hard Drive was partitioned as a Dynamic Drive and when I re partitioned the main hard drive and Reinstalled Windows, the second hard drive was read as a Unreadable disk in disk management. ok I can deal with that, so I got GetDataBack for NTFS V 2.25 and it found the disk Windows said was unreadable and all the data is still there, yay!
Now, heres the problem, when pulling the data off the unreadable disk, I was pulling some files and bam, a big red circle with an X pops up and says C:\ corrupted, please run chkdsk followed by many other messages like C:\$mft corrupt, please run chkdsk, just ALOT of messages saying they were corrupted and to run chkdsk, I restarted my computer to run chkdsk and it tells me error loading operating system, so ok, I have reformat the primary hard drive (C:\)and reinstal Windows for ANYTHING to work.
I thought maybe that some files on the other hard drive caused this, BUT then I got some disks in the mail with some games, it was MAME .81 with 22 gigs of stuff on 6 DVD's, when I tried instaling that it started ok, but on the 3rd disk, same thing C:\ corrupted, run chkdsk followed by many others like it. So it seems to be happening when transfering large files
Now, speed up to this point, I've had to delete my partition, reformat the drive, and reinstall Windows 2000 with SP4 like 13 times now, I'm pretty sick of it, what's causing my C:\ to corrupt itself when moving files either from the unreadable Hard drive to the good one or moving files from CD Rom files to my readable healthy drive Hard Drive?
So any ideas would help,I think I should be able to have all the old files I had back from my AMD Athlon 1800XP days working on this new rig, but Windows keeps corrupting itself and I don't know why whenI try to move stuff over
Some other messages I get are WindowsMedia Corrupt, run chkdsk, and the list goes on and on, nothing in Windows works after that first fatal red X message.
I thought it might be a Memory issue, so I ran MemTest86 v3.1 and after passing all the test 3 times with no errors, I don't think it's that.
by the way
Mem86 stats
Athlon 64 2203 Mhz
L1 Cache 128k 18054 Mb/s
L2 Cache 1024k 3990 Mb/s
Memory 1023m 1433MB/s
Testing 80k-1023m 1023m
Pass:3
Error: 0
I've also ran Western Digitals Lifegaurd Utility and my hard drive passed
I've read something about having a 9800 Pro video card with Catylst drivers, having more than 512Mbs of Ram, and a Hard Drive bigger than 120 gigs causes something like this, but I'm still foggy on the whole thing and could use some more info, but I think that only applies to Win XP.
There has to be a logical reason for this, any ideas?
Thanks