A couple of weeks ago I got home and my girlfriend told me my PC was acting up. She turned it on earlier and it wouldn't boot, just got a blank screen so she soft restarted and then there was a message about a missing file, so she turned it off and left it. So, I turned it on and it boots fine, but after a while there is a blue screen and this keeps happening, I keep getting BSOD. After checking a few things like temps and not finding anything obviously wrong, I decide I'll try to save what files I can in case it is install windows time. While I'm saving files ready to burn to DVD it blue-screens again and then when I restart the PC drive is automatically checked by windows and lots of files are found and fixed. It seems to me that the blue-screen error interrupted a big write to the drive and screwed things up. So, much later, after looking at various things I try reinstalling the motherboard drivers and this seems to work, I've not had a lockup or blue-screen since. However now that drive seems very slow to access sometimes and every time I boot the PC, windows XP checks the file system. I've run all kinds of checking the drive for errors (the full at boot-up five step one included), chkdsk /r, chkdsk /x etc. It occurred to me to check the even log and I keep getting these errors:
When I do the things that windows help suggests, such as chkdsk /r d:, nothing works.Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 55
Date: 08/11/2008
Time: 21:06:15
User: N/A
Computer: JKDESKTOP
Description:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume D:.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0d 00 00 00 02 00 4e 00 ......N.
0008: 02 00 00 00 37 00 04 c0 ....7..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 32 00 00 c0 ....2..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
When I check it does tell me that ntfs is dirty but not how or why:
I'm not sure how to proceed apart from saving the data and wiping the drive. My guess is a file that cannot be fixed by chkdsk is corrupted, maybe the pagefile. I don't really want to format the drive if there is an easier way. Hope someone can advise me.Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Jake>chkntfs d:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
D: is dirty. You may use the /C option to schedule chkdsk for
this drive.
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