NTFS error HELP!

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Spleeze

Limp Gawd
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Ok so here's the deal, I have 2 SATA hard drives, one 32gig raptor with windows XP installed on it, and a 300 gig storage drive on the second SATA channel. They're both formatted in NTFS.

Here's the problem.

I can't get the computer to boot while the second SATA storage drive is connected. Which is really upsetting, considering it's the storage drive.

I recieve an error about ntfs.sys and some stop addresses in hex, I dont have them at the moment but I could get them if someone wants to really analyze them.

When i remove that drive the computer boots fine.

I cannot get into the recovery console to run chkdsk /p while the second drive is attached. When I try to get to the recovery console, I just recieve the same blue screen message I get when I boot the computer.

Safe mode is a no go as well.

The last thing i did before the problems was reboot the computer, it has been running for about 15 days before that, and i wasnt doing much more than browsing the internet, listening to music, and playing wow....


How can i repair this disk without using the recovery console. I'd really like to not reformat, as i have a lot of data on the drive i'd rather not go through the trouble of getting back on there. Thanks.
 
510watt seasonic, and i have it running on a UPS too.

I doubt that this is a power issue, I think i know where it stems from, and I've taken care of what i think the source was. Now i need to know how to run chkdsk on this drive or some other way to repair the partition, but recovery console isnt working....
 
The stop codes would be helpful, throw them in google and in microsoft search to see what kinda results you get.
 
Sounds like a bad harddrive to me. I had the same problem when my 150 storage drive died. It was always getting errors and messing up in general until it was removed. I pretty much lost everything on the drive because it is damn near impossible to recover the data off a dead drive unless you pay a data recovery specialist.
 
So I just went ahead and tried to format the drive, I got what really mattered to me off of it, and I guess the rest can go. Now here's the problem, when windows goes to format it, from the windows installer, it hangs at 91%, been there for like 40 min....

Think the drive is fubar'd? Any suggestions on how to get this thing formatted?
 
You should be able to download a free utility from the drive makers site to low level format it and check it for errors.
 
I tried doing that last night, but lucky for me, it doesn't support drive attached to third party raid controllers, and I have mine attacked to a silicon image si3112 third party raid controller built into my motherboard. So thier utility doesn't work for me, and i dont have any other native sata computers in the house!

fantastic!
 
Same thing happened to me. I had my Maxtor IDE drive on a raid card and had to put it back on my motherboards IDE to run the utility. I wasn't running it in RAID but that didn't matter. :mad:

PS: To add insult to injury you have to run the utility to get a code to RMA the drive.
 
Yeah, it says something to the effect of 'it is recommended to run the diagnostic tool' but I don't have any other way to do that with this SATA drive...
 
I've seen a few posts describing problems tying to RMA sata drives. Ether the utility won't run on a sata drive or the error number it gives back is incorrect, not excepted by the drive maker. I don't know what you do now, try and get a copy of spinright or look for a DOD program to write all 0's to the drive. :confused:
 
Yeah, that's exactly what I did, I used a tool called "Darik's Boot and Nuke" to completely erase the drive, and then it formatted and passed chkdsk...
Now I don't know how much I trust the drive anymore...

What do you think the reliablity of it will be now? I mean, I've lost everything that was on it that I couldn't back up, but i'm over that for now, as long as it's not going to become something that happens all the time....
 
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