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I have been running Win2K for several years with no issues. In the last 6
months though, I have been getting a variety of strange errors. Thus, this
summer I backed up everything, reformatted, and reinstalled everything.
Since them, I have lost the administrator profile several times and had to
recreate it. More recently, I am getting the following error for a variety
of files in the temporary internet folder when I run chkdsk (it is on a
separate partition from the administrator profiles):

'First allocation unit is not valid. The entry will be truncated'

I ran scandisk a week ago - nothing strange detected. Will rerun and see if
identify's any problems.

Could this problem be hardware related, or software? Is there further
diagnosis I can do? What pieces of hardware could it be? I have a computer
purchase program at work that will terminate in December, so if it is
hardware related, I would like to resolve the issues before then.

Thanks in advance,
Chris
 
With the exception of the errors in FAT, Scandisk ran without
incident.....would this indicate that my hardware is OK, but I have issues
causing bad writes to the hard disk?

Chris
 
I assume you are actually running chkdsk /f In any case it is sounding like a harddisk issue with the Write failures.
 
Yes, I was using win98 scandisk, which I believe runs something equivalent
to chkdsk/f. Is a hard disk failure the only explanation for a failing FAT
and corrupt administrator profiles? If so, I don't mind throwing some money
at a new hard drive. However, it would be good to know I am not wasting my
money.

Chris


I assume you are actually running chkdsk /f In any case it is sounding like
a harddisk issue with the Write failures.
 
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