Guest TheShadow Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Lately my system is requiring a disk check about twice a week or so. When the check is run it finds errors. Namely the error I seem to see is that the file sdchange.exe.mui is orphaned. It moves the file from the sector, it fixes the entry then moves the file back to the sector 7237 of the disk. In a few days this happens again in the exact same manner. This seemed to start immediately after SP1 Install for Vista Ultimate. System Info: Antec Titan 650 Case and 650W PSU ASUS P5N-E SLi Motherboard Corsair XMS2 PC2 8500 Memory Two 1024M Dimms in dual channel mode Intel E6750 Duo Core 2 Processor Evga 8800GT 512M SSC Vid Card Two 250G WD 2500AAKS SATA II Drives in RAID0 on the Nvidia RAID controller One 160G Maxtor on the Jmircon SATA controller Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 RTM on the RAID Windows XP SP2 on the standalone Maxtor MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard System is not experiencing any other issues at this time. Temps are all well within range. ACPI Thermal Zone 104 F Mobo 107 F Processor 104 F PSU 77 F Maxtor 90 F WDC 1 84 F WDC 2 84 F BIOS v. 0901 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jamesvdm Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hey Personally, when a drive starts to need disk checks I would replace the drive. Vista is more thorough when keeping an eye on the disk so it doesn't mean much if XP didn't tell you about it. It's always worth moving to a new disk while the old one is still going. James "TheShadow" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Lately my system is requiring a disk check about twice a week or so. When > the check is run it finds errors. Namely the error I seem to see is that the > file sdchange.exe.mui is orphaned. It moves the file from the sector, it > fixes the entry then moves the file back to the sector 7237 of the disk. In > a few days this happens again in the exact same manner. This seemed to start > immediately after SP1 Install for Vista Ultimate. > > System Info: > Antec Titan 650 Case and 650W PSU > ASUS P5N-E SLi Motherboard > Corsair XMS2 PC2 8500 Memory Two 1024M Dimms in dual channel mode > Intel E6750 Duo Core 2 Processor > Evga 8800GT 512M SSC Vid Card > Two 250G WD 2500AAKS SATA II Drives in RAID0 on the Nvidia RAID controller > One 160G Maxtor on the Jmircon SATA controller > Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 RTM on the RAID > Windows XP SP2 on the standalone Maxtor > MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 > MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard > > System is not experiencing any other issues at this time. > Temps are all well within range. > ACPI Thermal Zone 104 F > Mobo 107 F > Processor 104 F > PSU 77 F > Maxtor 90 F > WDC 1 84 F > WDC 2 84 F > BIOS v. 0901</span> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheShadow Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hi James: Thank you for reading and responding. The disk check happens in Vista or in XP. The check is not finding a bad block, it's merely moving a file from a cluster, that results in orphaning the file, then it rescans the block, verifies the block is ok, then moves the orphaned file back to the exact same block. This behavior started immediately after Vista 64bit Ultimate SP1 was installed. I believe that the SP1 install and this oddity are related. XP's diskchk and the Vista version of diskchk both do the exact same thing with the problem. I have made solid backups of my files in Vista in case of hardware failure is imminent. I suspect this is not hardware related. Typically when a hardware failure is about to occur the block would be marked bad, then the file moved to another block. Then another block would fail and get marked bad. This file is getting moved off of the block and back to the exact same block repeatedly. Given the proliferation of other issues with SP1 I'm grateful this is the only issue I am experiencing. Should the disk(s) or the RAID array fail or if I find another solution, I'll post it to this thread. "jamesvdm" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hey > > Personally, when a drive starts to need disk checks I would replace the > drive. Vista is more thorough when keeping an eye on the disk so it doesn't > mean much if XP didn't tell you about it. > > It's always worth moving to a new disk while the old one is still going. > > James > > "TheShadow" wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > Lately my system is requiring a disk check about twice a week or so. When > > the check is run it finds errors. Namely the error I seem to see is that the > > file sdchange.exe.mui is orphaned. It moves the file from the sector, it > > fixes the entry then moves the file back to the sector 7237 of the disk. In > > a few days this happens again in the exact same manner. This seemed to start > > immediately after SP1 Install for Vista Ultimate. > > > > System Info: > > Antec Titan 650 Case and 650W PSU > > ASUS P5N-E SLi Motherboard > > Corsair XMS2 PC2 8500 Memory Two 1024M Dimms in dual channel mode > > Intel E6750 Duo Core 2 Processor > > Evga 8800GT 512M SSC Vid Card > > Two 250G WD 2500AAKS SATA II Drives in RAID0 on the Nvidia RAID controller > > One 160G Maxtor on the Jmircon SATA controller > > Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 RTM on the RAID > > Windows XP SP2 on the standalone Maxtor > > MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 > > MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard > > > > System is not experiencing any other issues at this time. > > Temps are all well within range. > > ACPI Thermal Zone 104 F > > Mobo 107 F > > Processor 104 F > > PSU 77 F > > Maxtor 90 F > > WDC 1 84 F > > WDC 2 84 F > > BIOS v. 0901</span></span> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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