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Hi everyone 
hope you can point me in the right direction with some help on
a really odd problem ive encountered while installing XP Pro...
Heres the hardware setup:
Windows XP Pro was and is installed on the C drive, I did a couple of clean
installs on the C drive as you will see below
Music is all stored on a separate physical drive (for now its showing up as
D), its a 250GB drive that is nearly full, never had any problems with it
The lowdown, as far as I can tell...
1) Yesterday morning, reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the C drive, clean
install, got all the mobo drivers installed, etc, everything seeming to work
fine
2) at some point during all the driver installs and one of the necessary
reboots, I get the checkdisk utility which goes through the entire drive full
of music and looks like it is "repairing" everything, no clue why it thinks
it needs to do this... but I trust that it found something that needed to be
fixed
3) Once im back into Windows, I look at my music hard drive to see if all is
well. All the filenames are still there, everything LOOKS fine in Windows
Explorer...
4) when I try playing some songs, I hear scrambled audio on many tracks, as
if the media player is reading random data off the hard drive, bits and
pieces of random songs. Im freaking out...
5) later that day I come back to the computer, try it again, and the songs
seem to have miraculously fixed themselves, everything plays normally now. Im
happy again. I have no clue what "fixed" the problem.
6) That evening, I have to reinstall Windows cleanly again (thanks to XPSP2
conflicts)
7) refer to #4 above... my music is scrambled again. Not all of it, just a
BUNCH of it.
I cant seem to detect a pattern to which songs are corrupted, seems like a
random pick.
Ive run Scan Disk utils, rebooted a bunch of times, hoping it will magically
wake up from the trance... but no help. It seems like the computer knows all
the files are there, but has messed up the locations on where the actual song
resides on the hard drive.
Are there any repair utilities that can rebuild the file system for that
drive?
THANKS A MILLION (if your advice is helpful) hehe
hope you can point me in the right direction with some help ona really odd problem ive encountered while installing XP Pro...
Heres the hardware setup:
Windows XP Pro was and is installed on the C drive, I did a couple of clean
installs on the C drive as you will see below
Music is all stored on a separate physical drive (for now its showing up as
D), its a 250GB drive that is nearly full, never had any problems with it
The lowdown, as far as I can tell...
1) Yesterday morning, reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the C drive, clean
install, got all the mobo drivers installed, etc, everything seeming to work
fine
2) at some point during all the driver installs and one of the necessary
reboots, I get the checkdisk utility which goes through the entire drive full
of music and looks like it is "repairing" everything, no clue why it thinks
it needs to do this... but I trust that it found something that needed to be
fixed
3) Once im back into Windows, I look at my music hard drive to see if all is
well. All the filenames are still there, everything LOOKS fine in Windows
Explorer...
4) when I try playing some songs, I hear scrambled audio on many tracks, as
if the media player is reading random data off the hard drive, bits and
pieces of random songs. Im freaking out...
5) later that day I come back to the computer, try it again, and the songs
seem to have miraculously fixed themselves, everything plays normally now. Im
happy again. I have no clue what "fixed" the problem.
6) That evening, I have to reinstall Windows cleanly again (thanks to XPSP2
conflicts)
7) refer to #4 above... my music is scrambled again. Not all of it, just a
BUNCH of it.
I cant seem to detect a pattern to which songs are corrupted, seems like a
random pick.
Ive run Scan Disk utils, rebooted a bunch of times, hoping it will magically
wake up from the trance... but no help. It seems like the computer knows all
the files are there, but has messed up the locations on where the actual song
resides on the hard drive.
Are there any repair utilities that can rebuild the file system for that
drive?
THANKS A MILLION (if your advice is helpful) hehe