I have a laptop with WinXP SP2 that only boots halfway,
blue screens and reboots. From a boot cd, I can run
chkdsk on the harddrive and it passes all tests,
including /f and /r. The Disk Manager claims that
the NTFS partition is "Healthy".

Using some high level tools, I can actually see a
listing of the files on the disk. But, windows explorer
shows a zero size partition, zero files and zero free
space. I found one article that appeared to address
this issue, but the fixes don't work.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B311724

Attempting to access the disk, or do anything with
fsutil gives you the error message; "Drive cannot
find the sector requested".

As always, there is some data on the disk that wasn't copied
to the server. The user normal backed everything up on
Friday ... and this problem appeared Friday morning.

I have not found any other articles discussing problems
with the ntfs usn Journal.

Help!!!

Sigh... I was hoping to come in this morning and
find a pointer to a MS article telling me how to
fix this. I'm almost to the point where it will
be time to try to copy the data with a linux boot
disk and reformat the drive.

I got back to this system about a week later. Turned it on and
it booted without any problems. I guess that something timed
out in relation to the NTFS journal and a new one was created.

The system operated fine for three days... and suddenly blue
screened.... ending up with the same file system corruption.