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ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017

Entry 23rd June 2017: Post: 02


Index Errors


Hi

AMDDuron running XP and I have two drives. The second was partitioned 
2x40GB and I need the one drive to be Drive D. That's important cus the 
HTM docs I have created, of which there are a gzillion need the old 
/d|/folder/file tag and I am not going to start editing pages for a 
different drive letter. I had already plundered a 500GB USB drive to put 
some partial sense to the machine. Drive D though was already allocated 
to the CD writer. This computer is from 2004 and has Nero on it. I kinda 
wanted the machine for writing discs with the Amiga archive now 
installed. I know changing the letter may be risky.. but how much I 
hadn't bargained for.

So I did the do and tested Nero and all was fine. And then the problems 
started . I get a general error through windows that it cannot validate 
the drive that had been given the new letter. Some kind of security 
issue and problem with CHKDSK. The drive whilst being visible was 
showing that it was not formatted. So I tried to format but failed and 
so used the management window to format, which I never really trust.

Anyway, rest of the daylight hours were fine and I was pleasantly 
loading in my HTM and various Amiga folders from my external Maxtor USB 
drive. I then noticed the colour on the web pages were a bit light and 
not vivid and rich. I checked the settings but sadly this AMD was firing 
off the motherboard with no graphics card. So I decided to change that.

I went on the hunt and dug out two cards . A NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti and a 
Radeon Ati95508e 128DDR.. well thats what I scribbled down. I decided on 
the NVIDIA as it had a fan on the card and not just a heat sink as with 
the Radeon. So opened up the computer and plugged in the card. And 
that's when the problems really started.

I am advised by the OS that there are errors on the disk and I should 
allow the CHKDSK to do its job. It then hung on process 2 of 3 as it 
tried to correct errors in index $i30 and hung on 53% complete 77228. I 
decided to run it again and noted it was having issues with the 
partition that I did not give a new drive letter. So I hot footed up 
here and checked the net which was worse than useless, directing me to 
defunct Windows help pages... It was all pointing to a busted hard drive.

When I got back the machine was scrolling through every file on the 
machine moving orphaned files to a new directory with just a number as 
its index. I guessed the index system had fallen over and the thousands 
of freshly loaded files were out of their respective folders and now 
were being shunted around the drive. I sat there for a good hour 
watching this before digging out another spare hard drive 80GB. I just 
got so frustrated I switched the machine off from the power button 
whilst it was reorganising stuff.

I then switched back on and cancelled the CHKDSK at boot. Now here is 
the thing.. when I got in to the system there was absolutely nothing 
wrong with the drives. All files were still in their places and nothing 
looked out of order. But when this happens you just can't trust the drive.

So I opened up and swapped out the drive. Into the BIOS to detect the 
new drive. I was unable again to format from the window in the OS as the 
drive was filled with work garbage. Fired up and tried to go into 
SafeMode but there was no response from the keyboard. The thing was 
bust. I really wasn't having any luck. By now its like three in the 
morning. Into SafeMode and formatting drive while playing Arcade Snooker 
on the Amiga. By now its getting light and the birds are singing.

All worked fine. The NVIDIA was autodetected by the OS and we press on. 
Great thing about my stored files and exe stuff is that I managed to 
acquire copies before they introduced the first file that simply 
connects to the web to download the software. This machine, like most 
here does not connect to the internet. It simply gets a network number 
which I write on a large sticky that goes on the side of the machine and 
then gets added to the family for internal use. So having software that 
does not need to go on the internet to play and edit video and to use 
Photoshop etc is very important. And I have a good batch of software 
that gets plugged in and used on all my machines. You can't do that now 
cus they all need the internet to validate and try to flog you stuff.

So in the lounge tonight and transferring even more stuff to the AMD. 
And she's fine. I have set her off now copying over the contents of the 
Amiga archive and ETA on completion is around midnight. And then she'll 
be locked and loaded and ready to rock and roll.

Kinda sad when you break the back on a problem and all is sorted. All 
part of the fun.

And why am I here blurting on about this, well this group was created to 
create a diary of all that I do so that I can refer to it if necessary 
in the future. Its what I do.

scuzz



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