From: "Robert Comer" 

It's a possibility I suppose, I've seen that kind of problem hurt earlier
versions of NT, but I would think booting would be a problem...

- Bob Comer


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:43133f8f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Maybe the BIOS doesn't support the drive size????
>
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>
> Glenn M.
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:43133590{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Sounds like a hardware problem with the drive...
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Scott"  wrote in message
>> news:43133185$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Scott wrote:
>>>
>>> Odd, still getting directory errors although I reformatted the disk and
>>> then restored it with all files replaced (wasn't the recommended method
>>> according to ntbackup; it wanted to keep files, newer I think).
>>>
>>> Could it be an odd corruption in the OS files?
>>>
>>>> Good morning all!
>>>>
>>>> My problem, to get to it, is a hard drive issue/
>>>>
>>>> I Ghosted a copy of my previous drive (80 gig) to a newer 100 gig.
>>>>
>>>> The previous drive has already been retasked.
>>>>
>>>> But now, I'm getting a drive geometry error:
>>>>
>>>> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
>>>> master file table (MFT) bitmap.
>>>> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
volume bitmap.
>>>> Windows found problems with the file system.
>>>> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have run chkdsk multiple times both in /f and /r modes; no joy.
>>>>
>>>> Also, on occasion, I get "Orphaned file" and
"Truncating extents"
>>>> errors. This is obviously serious.
>>>>
>>>> So... I've done an NTBACKUP of the drive. I'd like to know what the
>>>> proper restore should be. Also, was there something I
should have done
>>>> in the backup to ensure (besides verify which I did, no errors) it's
>>>> proper restore?
>>>>
>>>> Scott/SpiritWolf
>>
>>
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