repeated corruption of boot volume

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I have a Windows 2000 server that repeatedly experiences corruption of the
C-partition I believe after heavy disk activity (backup of SQL database). I
have confirmed that it is not a hardware problem by replacing virtually
everything.

I am running a single IDE drive with 2 partitions. The OS partition will
experience event ID 55's and eventually (daily) become unusable soon after
backups. The data partition is never bothered. The drive certifies good.

To fix the problem, I am restoring the whole boot partition using a backup
image. The system runs fine all day, but after the backup runs, ie. the next
morning it is down and unbootable and I have to restore all over again.

The problem started about 1.5 months ago. I don't know of anything that
changed then.

Please help.

Russ Kinch
 
I have seen the reference to a fix being available from Microsoft, but I
don't know where to find it. If any know of one for Windows 2000, please let
me know.

"Under stressful disk input/output (I/O) on a volume that uses the NTFS file
system, disk inconsistency may occur. A fix is available from Microsoft for
both Windows 2000 and Windows NT"

I tried deleting the paging file and moving it to the other partition, which
never seems to have a problem. I don't know what impact this will have if
any yet.

The only way I can keep this server running is to not do a backup.

Russ

Dave Patrick said:
Some ideas here.

http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=55&eventno=1210&source=Ntfs&phase=1

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RKinch said:
I have a Windows 2000 server that repeatedly experiences corruption of the
C-partition I believe after heavy disk activity (backup of SQL database).
I
have confirmed that it is not a hardware problem by replacing virtually
everything.

I am running a single IDE drive with 2 partitions. The OS partition will
experience event ID 55's and eventually (daily) become unusable soon after
backups. The data partition is never bothered. The drive certifies good.

To fix the problem, I am restoring the whole boot partition using a backup
image. The system runs fine all day, but after the backup runs, ie. the
next
morning it is down and unbootable and I have to restore all over again.

The problem started about 1.5 months ago. I don't know of anything that
changed then.

Please help.

Russ Kinch
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I'm also wondering if I am perpetuating the problem by restoring using a
previous image of the boot partition. Could it be that restoring the paging
file and or the MBR has something to with the repeated corruption under heavy
loads?

Would FIXMBR or FIXBOOT have any impact on this situation after I restore
from backup (since I can already bootup at that point)?

Russ
 
RKinch said:
I'm also wondering if I am perpetuating the problem by restoring using a
previous image of the boot partition. Could it be that restoring the
paging
file and or the MBR has something to with the repeated corruption under
heavy
loads?
Click to expand...
*** Yes I also wondered if you weren't restoring the corruption.

Would FIXMBR or FIXBOOT have any impact on this situation after I restore
from backup (since I can already bootup at that point)?
Click to expand...
*** No


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
David,

Thank you for your thoughts. This problem has been driving me crazy because
there are no apparent problems with this server other than the fact that
after doing the backups, the OS partition becomes corrupt. Other than that
it runs all day normally and there aren't any event log errors (unless you do
a backup)

The document I was referring to was in the original link that you had posted
where they referenced "a patch" that supposedly corrected the corruption
with heavy disk I/O. However, I found that article that Microsoft had on the
subject and they basically said that after service pack 3 it shouldn't have
been a problem. I checked the file versions on the files in question and
they all appeared to be up to date according to the article.

I thought about re-installing Service Pack IV just to be sure though.

So if you agree with my thought that I might just be restoring the
corruption by using a Ghost image, what do I have to do to get rid of the
corruption and yet maintain at least my data partition?

I don't want to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows, SQL and MBS Dynamics
only to have the same problem when I'm done.

Thanks again.

Russ




Dave Patrick said:
RKinch said:
I'm also wondering if I am perpetuating the problem by restoring using a
previous image of the boot partition. Could it be that restoring the
paging
file and or the MBR has something to with the repeated corruption under
heavy
loads?
Click to expand...
*** Yes I also wondered if you weren't restoring the corruption.

Would FIXMBR or FIXBOOT have any impact on this situation after I restore
from backup (since I can already bootup at that point)?
Click to expand...
*** No


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
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