Hi,

Whenever a program reads or writes to the disk constantly
for a long time (such as searching through a large file or
scanning through millions of directories), Windows will
often show a blue screen saying error in ntfs.sys. When it
reboots, it insists on scanning the FAT32 drive, and never
any of the NTFS partitions.

The hard drive worked fine running other operating
systems. I've formatted it and re-installed Windows and
all but still nothing.

It's a WD 80GB hard drive, on a Soltek motherboard with
VIA chipset. I've heard VIA and Windows 2000 don't mix too
well... could that be the problem?

Cheers,
Dave

Cheers,
Dave.

If you boot into Safe Mode and perform the exact same operation, does
Windows still BSOD? If not, then I suspect a 3rd party file system filter
driver.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.


"DreamlaX" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1b91801c4504a$a83f01c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Whenever a program reads or writes to the disk constantly
> for a long time (such as searching through a large file or
> scanning through millions of directories), Windows will
> often show a blue screen saying error in ntfs.sys. When it
> reboots, it insists on scanning the FAT32 drive, and never
> any of the NTFS partitions.
>
> The hard drive worked fine running other operating
> systems. I've formatted it and re-installed Windows and
> all but still nothing.
>
> It's a WD 80GB hard drive, on a Soltek motherboard with
> VIA chipset. I've heard VIA and Windows 2000 don't mix too
> well... could that be the problem?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.