Die ntfs!

[Panda Man]

Here's one for you.

I got everything backed up onto the external Rich sent me, formatted the 300GB disk and copy the 10GB partition to the 300GB (its a fresh installation, only thing installed is Partition magic). I then resize it to 20GB. then add logical partitions in different cluster sizes and so on and so forth. I reboot, take out the 10GB and hook up the second optical drive again. I reboot, and everything is going fine until I start copying stuff over to F: (my high filesize partition for movies and disk images, 135GB with 32KB clusters) then I reboot suddenly. Shouldn't happen, but I shrug it off and let windows reboot. It reboots again before it gets to the welcome screens. OH NOES! I thought, as I let it reboot again. This time chkdsk runs on F:, but doesn't find any errors. I get into windows, get ready to copy more files to E: (files partition) and reboot again! chkdsk runs again on F:. Being skeptical, I simply install FF and my wlan drivers and I get a BSOD with the file at fault being "ntfs.sys". Now, this obviously can't be good, so I take a trip to diskmgmt and delete F: thinking there is a serious problem with it. Hoping maybe all was well and that I can fix the error later, BSOD. Same thing. Fearing windows has simply decided it just didn't want to live, I pull out the setup CD. In the DOS portion of setup, when it examines the hdd, I GET ANOTHER BSOD, SAME ERROR. This happened twice. Out of an act of desperation I grab the Vista cd and put it in, come back after using the restroom, it to hit a BSOD, but not the same thing (it was a .sys file, but I can't remember which one). Any idea's as to what is going on here? I'm going to try formatting using ultimate boot cd, but who knows? Maybe it will hit a BSOD too! :P

edit - I give up. Maxtor, meet killdisk!

EDIT2 - Killdisk got the job down. I stopped it at 8%, I figured either way it would be dead, I'm back in windows and running strong. Any ideas as to what would cause this though? The fact that it caused both XP and Vista to BSOD during the hard disk detection portion of setup has me stumped.

[screwballl]

maybe they didn't like the 32KB clusters??? if thats the only real difference then thats what I would blame it on... any of us here should know that windows does not like running in anything but its default configuration, and that cluster size threw it for a loop

[Panda Man]

Originally Posted by screwballl

maybe they didn't like the 32KB clusters??? if thats the only real difference then thats what I would blame it on... any of us here should know that windows does not like running in anything but its default configuration, and that cluster size threw it for a loop

Windows was on its default 4KB cluster and even after deleting the partition with 32KB clusters it still BSODed in both version when examining the disk. All is well though.