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Okay, have XP Pro with 2 250 Gig SATA drives, RAID ready, but not set up
using RAID, and 1 IDE 100 Gig drive.
I had a problem after a while with continuous write delay errors on one of
the SATA drives, which would say that "windows could not save the data
d:\foldername\foldername\foldername\somefile, the data was lost." These
errors would be intersperesed with D:\$Mft and D:\$Bitmap errors. The
errors would keep popping up until I disabled the drive. They happen
whether I'm accessing the drive or not. I got a new drive from Western
Digital, and after about 3 days of use the exact same thing happened.
I noticed that a lot of the files referred to were in Web folders, and am
thinking this is happening because:
1) Maybe it's that I have some Windows folders and files (ie. Inetpub,
Windows) on that drive, while the actual OS folder is on a different drive
2) Maybe it's because I have a huge number of folders, each w/ thousands of
files (although I don't think I go over 65,000 in any directory, but I'll
need to check; it's probably close)
3) Maybe it's because some of the folders have many scanned images that are
over 100 Mb (ie. a few hundred .psd files over 80 Mb)
4) Some combination of the above
On using Chkdsk, I see a lot of unreadable clusters now, although when the
problem first started chkdsk wouldn't have a problem.
I'm doing what I can to save the files elsewhere (again) and format all the
internal drives and start over (although after moving a few files, I get an
internal I/O error and have to reboot and try again). Anyone have
suggestions as to what went
wrong, and what I should do to avoid this issue in future (ie. not save Webs
in wwwroot folder on non-OS drive, make more folders with fewer trees in
each, etc.)?
Thanks for any advice, it's appreciated.\
using RAID, and 1 IDE 100 Gig drive.
I had a problem after a while with continuous write delay errors on one of
the SATA drives, which would say that "windows could not save the data
d:\foldername\foldername\foldername\somefile, the data was lost." These
errors would be intersperesed with D:\$Mft and D:\$Bitmap errors. The
errors would keep popping up until I disabled the drive. They happen
whether I'm accessing the drive or not. I got a new drive from Western
Digital, and after about 3 days of use the exact same thing happened.
I noticed that a lot of the files referred to were in Web folders, and am
thinking this is happening because:
1) Maybe it's that I have some Windows folders and files (ie. Inetpub,
Windows) on that drive, while the actual OS folder is on a different drive
2) Maybe it's because I have a huge number of folders, each w/ thousands of
files (although I don't think I go over 65,000 in any directory, but I'll
need to check; it's probably close)
3) Maybe it's because some of the folders have many scanned images that are
over 100 Mb (ie. a few hundred .psd files over 80 Mb)
4) Some combination of the above
On using Chkdsk, I see a lot of unreadable clusters now, although when the
problem first started chkdsk wouldn't have a problem.
I'm doing what I can to save the files elsewhere (again) and format all the
internal drives and start over (although after moving a few files, I get an
internal I/O error and have to reboot and try again). Anyone have
suggestions as to what went
wrong, and what I should do to avoid this issue in future (ie. not save Webs
in wwwroot folder on non-OS drive, make more folders with fewer trees in
each, etc.)?
Thanks for any advice, it's appreciated.\