WinXP and SATA

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Wild Dean

I have been having an ongoing problem with WinXP SP1 and a SATA setup. I
have a Gigabyte 8SQ-800 Ultra m/b, Seagate 80gb SATA drive and will get NTFS
errors on startup causing chkdsk to run. I have 2 partitions and was
originally getting the errors on C:. I have reinstalled WinXP on a spare
ATA-100 HDD and that has moved the problem now to my data drive (E:). Now E:
does chkdsk on every startup even though there is no errors and I cant get
rid of it. I have installed all the latest M/B, video & sata drivers from
the vendors web sites and even tried an update for sata from Technet
relating to a similar issue with SATA and ACPI, which didnt fix the problem.
Failing this I will go back to Win2K to see if that fixes the problem.
 
So nobody knows how to resolve it??? Its XP Pro BTW and NTFS partitions.
 
Well I installed Win2000 from scratch and the parition in question was
unreadable in Win2K, but XP would still read it. Backed up the data,
reformatted and recopied data and havent had a problem since on Win2K and
the PC seems to be faster now. I believe the robustness of XP has gone south
over 2K for the sake of better app compatability IMO.
 
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