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I keep getting 2 errors on my fresh new install with all of the correct
drivers and updates for every piece of software. I was getting one simmilar
to these two before I formatted and reinstalled everything.
The first error which I posted about here a year or so ago was a parity
error that referenced an IDE chain and a specific hard drive which I really
don't want to try to produce again to test. The install I got this error
from was a pirated copy of windows xp pro. To fix this error the first thing
I did was back up all of my data that wasnt easily reproduced or couldn't be
reproduced. I would have dumped it all just to be safe but there was and
still is a lot of data on this machine. After the backup I went and bought
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 Full Version (Reactivating with the computers
pretty cool if you haven't done it yet. Very painless contrary to
expectations.) I stick the cd in the drive boot the computer and erase all
the partitions still on the computer then create a new partition (about 12
gigs used for this not the entire drive). I choose NTFS with a full format
and then reinstall the operating system and load everything back up.
Problem solved for now.
About 3 months later I start getting the two similar errors except this time
it references \Device\HardDisk0\D with a paging error and then another one is:
driver detected a controller error on \Device\HardDisk1\D\
Which makes very little sense if D is supposed to be the partition letter
because the D partition is shown on Disk 2.
Most of the hard drives are fairly new with the oldest being 2 western
digital 20 gig drives.
The drives the errors mentioned were both new Maxtor drives one is 250GB and
the other 300GB.
I am thinking that somehow the IDE chain on my motherboard is screwed at
some point but there isn't any way for me to test that and not spend more
than it would cost to buy a new motherboard. Is there a program that will
test for a bad drive on the level that might be causing these problems?
All of the drives are NTFS file system and marked healthy.
complete system specs:
ABIT NF7-S2G Motherboard
Athalon AMD 2800+ XP
2x 512MB DDR 333 Ram
Creative Labs X-Gamer Live! 5.1 Sound Card
MSI Geforce FX5600 Ultra (with the additional power connection)
Onboard Gigabit Lan
SIIG Ultra ATA 133 PCI Card
Generic DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Hard Drives:
Connected to the Expansion Card:
Disk 0:
Western Digital 20GB Caviar IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 5.48GB
Partition 3: 12.65GB (Marked Primary still from old installation)
Disk 1:
Western Digital 20GB Caviar IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 13.19GB
Partition 3: 4.93GB
On the motherboard:
IDE 1:
Disk 0:
Maxtor 300GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: 39.06GB (new system primary drive)
Partition 2: 240.41GB
Disk 1:
Maxtor 250GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 116.62GB
Partition 3: 116.61GB
IDE 2:
Disk 0:
Maxtor 60GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: 18.28GB
Partition 2: 19.01GB
Partition 3: 18.62GB
drivers and updates for every piece of software. I was getting one simmilar
to these two before I formatted and reinstalled everything.
The first error which I posted about here a year or so ago was a parity
error that referenced an IDE chain and a specific hard drive which I really
don't want to try to produce again to test. The install I got this error
from was a pirated copy of windows xp pro. To fix this error the first thing
I did was back up all of my data that wasnt easily reproduced or couldn't be
reproduced. I would have dumped it all just to be safe but there was and
still is a lot of data on this machine. After the backup I went and bought
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 Full Version (Reactivating with the computers
pretty cool if you haven't done it yet. Very painless contrary to
expectations.) I stick the cd in the drive boot the computer and erase all
the partitions still on the computer then create a new partition (about 12
gigs used for this not the entire drive). I choose NTFS with a full format
and then reinstall the operating system and load everything back up.
Problem solved for now.
About 3 months later I start getting the two similar errors except this time
it references \Device\HardDisk0\D with a paging error and then another one is:
driver detected a controller error on \Device\HardDisk1\D\
Which makes very little sense if D is supposed to be the partition letter
because the D partition is shown on Disk 2.
Most of the hard drives are fairly new with the oldest being 2 western
digital 20 gig drives.
The drives the errors mentioned were both new Maxtor drives one is 250GB and
the other 300GB.
I am thinking that somehow the IDE chain on my motherboard is screwed at
some point but there isn't any way for me to test that and not spend more
than it would cost to buy a new motherboard. Is there a program that will
test for a bad drive on the level that might be causing these problems?
All of the drives are NTFS file system and marked healthy.
complete system specs:
ABIT NF7-S2G Motherboard
Athalon AMD 2800+ XP
2x 512MB DDR 333 Ram
Creative Labs X-Gamer Live! 5.1 Sound Card
MSI Geforce FX5600 Ultra (with the additional power connection)
Onboard Gigabit Lan
SIIG Ultra ATA 133 PCI Card
Generic DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Hard Drives:
Connected to the Expansion Card:
Disk 0:
Western Digital 20GB Caviar IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 5.48GB
Partition 3: 12.65GB (Marked Primary still from old installation)
Disk 1:
Western Digital 20GB Caviar IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 13.19GB
Partition 3: 4.93GB
On the motherboard:
IDE 1:
Disk 0:
Maxtor 300GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: 39.06GB (new system primary drive)
Partition 2: 240.41GB
Disk 1:
Maxtor 250GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: Swap Partiton 526MB (fixed page file size of 512MB)
Partition 2: 116.62GB
Partition 3: 116.61GB
IDE 2:
Disk 0:
Maxtor 60GB IDE Drive:
Partition 1: 18.28GB
Partition 2: 19.01GB
Partition 3: 18.62GB