MFT Curruption

[savage]

Hmmm...

For the first time in a very long time, I'm stumped.

I have a 320GB SATA. I checked' with Seagate's Diagnostics software, I checked with SpinRite - both gives the drive a green light, no problems.

In my XP Pro however, I copy like 30 files to the drive, run a chkdsk, and the MFT is currupt!

Format the drive, copy files, chkdsk - corrupt

copy files, chkdsk - corrupt (Can you see the pattern here?)

No errors logged in the event logs, I've even disabled the cache on the drive... It makes no sense to me what so ever...

Does anyone have some idea? Unless there is something wrong with the drive (which Seagate's Diagnostics / SpinRite will show), I doubt I'll have much success taking the drive back to where I baught it, claiming that it is faulty...

 

[Random717]

wierd, have you tried it on another pc, with a different sata cable? just an idea..

 

[ernstn]

These type of problems also occur when your PC's memory is dodgy!

 

[savage]

Hmmm...

I doubt it's memory as it only happens on the 320GB and not on any of the other drives, but I'll run a memtest over the weekend - wanted to test it at some stage anyways...

I'm thinking the NTFS is not alligned properly to the drive clusters but ja. Unless someone knows something, I'm just taking stabs in the dark here -shrugs-

 

[werner]

check your cabling route. perhaps the sata cable is interfering with others.
i had a similar problem on scsi drive a loooong time ago.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

...and relocate your cellphone/3g card if you've got one and use it for Internet...