All files corrupted during large file copy under Win2K

[Guest]

I have had two massive "melt-down" hard disk failures of my Dell 400SC machine running Win2K
In both cases, I was doing a large file copy and the result was directory corruption
In both cases, upon reboot it said "UNABLE TO LOAD OPERATING SYSTEM"
(I am using an Hitachi 200 GB drive.

The reason I am posting this question here becuse I just talked to Dell Technical support, an
they said this machine has not been certified to work with Win2K, but it is certified for
Win2K Server (along with other server versions). He didn't know if it has known failures with Win2
or if it is just untested. Given that I have had two of these failures now, I am starting to wonder
The basic hardware diagnostics all execute error-free.

Can anyone think of a reason why this hardware might fail with Win2K but work with Win2K Server

Win2K satifies my current needs but I can move to Win2K Server if necessary. Are there "drawbacks
to moving to Win2K Server for normal "home usage"? Any applications that will not work, etc

Thanks.

-Crai

 

[Dave Patrick]

That message is coming from your system bios. It sounds like a drive and or
drive controller problem. AFAIK the controller driver in any case would be
the same for workstation or server versions of Windows 2000

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:
|I have had two massive "melt-down" hard disk failures of my Dell 400SC
machine running Win2K.
| In both cases, I was doing a large file copy and the result was directory
corruption.
| In both cases, upon reboot it said "UNABLE TO LOAD OPERATING SYSTEM".
| (I am using an Hitachi 200 GB drive.)
|
| The reason I am posting this question here becuse I just talked to Dell
Technical support, and
| they said this machine has not been certified to work with Win2K, but it
is certified for
| Win2K Server (along with other server versions). He didn't know if it has
known failures with Win2K
| or if it is just untested. Given that I have had two of these failures
now, I am starting to wonder.
| The basic hardware diagnostics all execute error-free.
|
| Can anyone think of a reason why this hardware might fail with Win2K but
work with Win2K Server?
|
| Win2K satifies my current needs but I can move to Win2K Server if
necessary. Are there "drawbacks"
| to moving to Win2K Server for normal "home usage"? Any applications that
will not work, etc?
|
| Thanks.
|
| -Craig
|
|
|

 

[Guest]

Well I'm running server2k and I just had this exact same probem yesterday, and no application I had would restore the data, (it's not my boot drive so I could still run windows,) so in short I don't think upgrading to server 2k would prevent this from happening
As for application compatability, I havent seen any problems execpt for Mcaffe and Norton systemworks, both of which required special server versions.