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Ice - Thanks for your help, it appears that all trouble was stemming from my power supply. Although I measured a steady 12.87 V on the rail, after borrowing an oscilliscope I discovered there was all kinds of noise and who knows what bleeding across into the disk drive. Replaced the power...
Have run memory tests, RAID tests and Western Digital drive tests several times with no trouble. I think I've updated all the drivers I could find. I'm not sure about the 12V power, although the voltage levels are reading fine there might be sub-transient dips that are difficult to measure...
I ran "chkntfs /D" to force values to default. I also removed my 40 Gbyte secondary drive, so now I'm only looking at only the Western Digital drive. Powered off and on and used XP two times without any errors, but on third cycle Chkdsk came back on, on my root partition I had 50 or so...
Personal home computer.
Installed new Western Digital WD1200JBRTL 1.2 Gbyte drive w/8 Mbyte cache as new primary master, moved my existing Toshiba 40 Gbyte (still loaded with WIN98) as secondary slave. Installed XP on new drive. CHKDSK keeps self-executing at boot, and scary thing it...