Files over 2 gig going to 0

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I have a Proliant server that at random times the files over 2 gig in size are going to 0 in size. These are files that have no consistency, they are not the same extension or type of file. The only thing they have in common are that they all are over 2 gig in size. I have begged HP for support on this since this server is under warranty but they still say it is not a hardware problem and won't help me. It is a Windows 2000 server running NTFS. It is a 62.7 gig partition. The files show 0 in size and they are really 0 in size. This has been going on over a year now. The server was originally an NT 4 server but sometime in the past year trying to figure out this problem, the entire server was wiped clean and a new installation of Windows 2000 was installed. The funny thing about this is that not all files over 2 gig go to 0. We have had one out there since June and it is fine. We put one out there 2 days ago and it was gone to 0 within 24 hours.
 
I would start with verifying the firmware and drivers that you are using. I
have seen large file corruption on some RAID arrays in the past and updating
drivers helped.

If that doesn't help, I would start looking at the application(s) that are
generating the files. 2GB is the maximum value of a signed 32bit integer
and if the application that accesses the file has problem with that (e.g. it
causes an overflow), then the file could become corrupted (or the
application could fail in some other way, causing a file corruption as a
by-product).

Pat
 
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