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pbj75

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Posted earlier about my ASUS P4C800Deluxe MB crapping out. Turns out the memory controller went bad. Also, both sticks of Corsair XMS memory died. Wonder if the controller took the memory with it. Hmmmmm......

But that's not the problem. The problem is now one of the hard drives is behaving strangely. I can look at it in windows explorer, but anytime I try to access some of the files, I get a message about the path being too deep. Trying to double click a file to play (video), generates a Windows Media Player semaphore error.

Ran CHKDSK, and it locks up 1/3 of the way in. Likewise when I ran Norton DiskDoctor, hangs at 27% when "Checking the indexes".

However, running the Western Digital hard drive specific tools shows everything good. A full media scan of 186GB, no problems. No SMART errors, either.

My guess is bad info was written to the drive courtesy of the bad memory. The result is a corrupted file structure.

Any recommendations on software to rebuild the indexes? The drive is formatted NTFS. I suppose a reformat would do it, but that kill all the data.
 
this is just a shot in the dark, but isnt there some kind of hard drive recover program built into windows xp. the program is called system restore. all you do is pick one of the random save dates before your hard drive was corrupted and roll back to that.

sorry if i dont know what im talking about.
 
Yes, SystemRestore is built into XP. However, it assumes a properly functioning file system, which I definitely do not have.

The purpose of System Restore is to you undo changes to your drive. For example, you installed the latest ATI drivers, but now you have all types of display corruption. System Restore would let you restore the disk to the exact condition before you installed those troublesome ATI drivers.

Obviously, SR uses up disk space since it keeps copies of any files changed or deleted.
 
A little more info.

When copying from DOS window (Still within XP), if the files don't copy, it returns the following error "The semaphore timout period has expired."

Sometimes can grab alot of files from a directory, sometimes hardly any.
 
Move thread to Data Storage. Shouldn't be in General. Sorry about that.

Also, now that I found the Data Storage forum, I read the sticky's and my questions are answered. I really miss Search... ;)
 
Okay. I downloaded Restorer2000 and had it scan my troublesome drive. The scan log returned a bunch of semaphore timeout errors. Those are the exact same errors I get in Windows Media player when trying to access "bad" files. I also get timeouts when I try a copy from a DOS windows.

However, when I run the Western Digital tools (windlg10), they report every sector as being good.

So, is the drive bad, or is it just corrupted chains?

Running FileScavenger as I type. It is going to take a LONG time, 200GB drive.
 
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