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W2k - corrupt files

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by rcoolman

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We build systems and have had a few problems lately with file corruption -esp. registry - on Win2k Pro systems. They all of a sudden won't boot to windows and will reference some registry key is missing or corrupt - not always the same key. And ifyou restore the key, and chkdsk there will be several errors it fixes, but the drives themselves don't seem to be bad. We are using WD 20 & 30 Gb Caviar drives and Gigabyte Mainboards. We have tried both with and without the Gigabyte IDE controller drivers. Any help out there?

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by bohicam1

just an off the wall hunch here...what size and file format are you making your c:\ drives?
fat16 will only work on partitions smaller than 2 GB's and NTFS will only support up to 7.8 GB's. Perhaps your c:\ drive is too big, sometimes it works, sometimes it won't.
Good luck!

Mike

by rcoolman

According to MS, Win2k supports 2 Tb partitions. We suspect the problem may have been due to faulty memory.

by kdurichek

Personally I haven't had a lot of luck with caviar drives, but you said you restored the key? Do you mean you ran repair for windows 2000 from cd? If not try the repair I have had good luck with it on the few machines I have had to run it on. Also are you loading straight from cd or are ghosting or imaging from another machine. If you are doing the latter that could possibly be your problem.

by rcoolman

The repair sometimes worked, but the files re-corrupted. The systems were not ghosted. We suspect the problem may have been due to faulty memory.

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