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XPS 420 - disk structure is corrupted and unreadable
I have an XPS 420 with a 640 GB SATA hard drive. I used Acronis Disk Director to split the drive into 2 partitions.
The system was initially running Vista 32-bit and was recently upgraded to Windows 7 32-bit.
I keep getting these messages that the "disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". I run checkdsk /f to fix the problem, but it happens again, sometimes within hours, sometime within days. I installed a replacement hard drive, which did nothing to fix the problem. This problem was occuring BEFORE the upgrade to Windows 7.
A number of the directories are shared and accessed from other systems on my network. (I do this with other PC without any problems.)
I am at the point of getting rid of the system since I keep lossing files.
Any suggestions?
John
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January 21st, 2010 05:00
Hi, John:
I'll be happy to take it off your hands! :emotion-2:
Seriously, though, you need to test the drive. I don't know if your Acronis disc has a utility but you could also use the Dell diagnostics. But you need to run it from the resource disc. Yes, I understand it's a new drive, but that's the first thing you need to do.
Did you perform an upgrade or clean Win 7 installation?
Edit: Also saw a suggestion to update the BIOS, then wipe the drive using your OS disc and restore your last image. Give that a try.
Mary G
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January 21st, 2010 09:00
When you run chkdsk from the command prompt, you should use the /R parameter for repair instead of /F. I'd buy a new hard drive and replace the problem one. They are cheap enough nowadays. Here's the command to use: CHKDSK /R
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January 21st, 2010 09:00
Make me an offer. :emotion-55:
Seriously, I have run the WGC disk tests, the Dell Diagnostics (whole system), and a free ware disk test program. None of the programs finds any errors.
The Windows 7 was an upgrade. But I had problems before the upgrade.
John
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January 21st, 2010 12:00
Ok, I found something that I believe is going to help in this post.
Note: "The problem is with an incompatibility between Acronis Disk Director (and presumable other Acronis tools that format the disk) and Windows 7."
You might want to contact Acronis for help.
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January 25th, 2010 04:00
Interesting, but I had the problem BEFORE I installed Windows 7.
On a side note, I was having problems with Windows Home Server backing up this system. I removed ZoneAlarm and the problem went away.
What is also interesting, is that I have not had any disk corruption since I removed ZoneAlarm. Weird or Lucky?
John