Harddrive vs Chkdsk in sp2

[Sam]

I've had a problem which is driving me nuts. It all started about 2
weeks ago when I'd occasionally get an error in the Event Viewer that
would say: Event ID 55, "The file system structure on the disk is
corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:."
So last week I repartitioned/formatted and reinstalled Windows XP-pro.
This is on a year-old Maxtor 120mb HD that's partitioned into two
sections. Windows is on the first partition (that's the one I
reformatted). I haven't touched the second partition.

Well this week I start getting that same message again... not all the
time, but just once in awhile. So I run chkdsk from the command prompt
and it says there's errors. chkntfs says the disk is not dirty. Using
the Error Checker in the disk Properties/Tools says the disk is OK.
I've run chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r multiple times and still come up with
some ugly type errors. Below are some examples run from the Windows
command prompt, from 3 different times:

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry 15-cz9q.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
Deleting index entry 15-dy9p.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
Deleting index entry 15-ex9o.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
Deleting index entry 15-fw9n.epm in index $I30 of file 102629.
Index verification completed.

(I've had this identical result twice after running chkdsk /f)

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.

CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
Recovering orphaned file 15-pfE2h.tmp (100278) into directory file 102629.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.

So I've run the Powermax utility from Maxtor and it said the disk is
certified error free. That means that the disk should be physically OK
at least. So, what's causing the NTFS errors? There seems to be
something with "file 102629" that seems to pop up over and over again.

Thanks.

Sam

 

[Gnugs]

There are some indications that the messages
"CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap" etc. may not indicate real
errors but have started cropping up because of SP2 and large disk
management. Contact MS to be sure.