Blue screens caused by ntfs.sys

[DreamlaX]

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.

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

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.