NTMSIDX = 1.9GB!!

[horst]

My Win2000 runs normally quite well.
This morning I was a bit surprised that Scandisk checked the Windows
partition although I am sure that I had swiched off the PC regularly.
Well things like that may happen sometimes, I thought.
Then when Windows started, I immediately realized that all operations
where awfully slow. And HD was continuously running.
I looked around and the I found the cause: I had some 10MB free on the
HD instead of 2GB I had yesterday!
I run PieChart and I immediately saw what happened: the
WINNT\system32\NtmsData\NTMSIDX file changed from a normal size of 90KB
to 1.9GB!
Somebody can tell me what this file is good for and if there may be a
reason for it ? (Virus attack??)
Thanks for your help
Horst

 

[Greg Stigers]

First of all, its chkdsk, not scandisk. And I'm not sure what you mean by
"PieChart", but I gather that is shows diskspace. See also SpaceMonger, at
http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html.

NTMSData holds information from RSS, the Remote Storage Service. See
"Restore the Remote Storage Database" at
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235469#3> and "Problems with a Damaged
Removable Storage Manager Database" at
<<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235032>>

 

[horst]

First of all, its chkdsk, not scandisk. And I'm not sure what you mean by
"PieChart", but I gather that is shows diskspace. See also SpaceMonger, at
http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html.

You are right: it has the same purpose, but I prefer it:
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ (Scanner)

NTMSData holds information from RSS, the Remote Storage Service. See
"Restore the Remote Storage Database" at
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235469#3> and "Problems with a Damaged
Removable Storage Manager Database" at
<<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235032>>

thanks for the info.
I'm glad to see that this problem may happen even without the help of a
virus!
Horst