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kes
I am running on Win XP Pro (SP3) ona DELL Dimension.
kes:
Setting aside your problem with creating a disk image in connection with
your "source" HDD, i.e., your day-to-day boot drive, can we assume that
there's no other problem(s) with that disk? It boots without incident and
functions without any problems?
No, sorry, I am NOT saying any of the above.Are you indicating that you're able to create a disk-image backup of your
source HDD with whatever disk-imaging program you're using, but when you
attempt to restore the system to another HDD using whatever recovery/restore
process your program utilizes, it's at that point that you get the
"BAD_POOL-HEADER..." error message when you attempt to boot to the
(supposedly) restored HDD? So it's obvious that something went awry with the
disk-imaging process?
Or are you indicating that somehow the problem arises when you attempt to
create a disk-image of your source HDD with your disk-imaging program?
Peter Foldes said:0x00000019: BAD_POOL_HEADER
A pool header issue is a problem with Windows memory allocation. Device driver
issues are probably the msot common, but this can have diverse causes including bad
sectors or other disk write issues,
kes said:Correct. In every other respect (boot-up, defrag, disk-scan, etc) my HDD
behaves normally.
kes said:No, sorry, I am NOT saying any of the above.
kes said:Correct. The only problem I have with the new HDD is when I attempt to do
an
'image' backup of the C: drive. (I have no problem backing up individual
files, working documents, etc.)
kes said:Hi Peter, thanks for pointers to the the various possibilities:
Well, I have done a 'scan disk' and as far as I can tell, the new disk has
no bad sectors or disk write issues. (I have not tried to update the HDD
device driver (Maxtor STM3320613AS) , fearing to make things worse.)