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Old 05-12-2003, 08:21 AM   #1
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Both drive's directorys corupt and unreadable after copying 1 partition to another

I added a new drive to replace a smaller drive to my box and now after copying the old active drive to the new active drive both the orginal drive and now the new drive shows that the directory is corupt and unreadable when I try to run System Suite Jet Defrag. Chkntfs shows it is dirty.

The box has 2 drives both partitioned that I can switch between the 2 and boot from either one via a toggle switch on the front panel.
All 4 partitions were FAT32 that I converted to NTFS using the convert utility within 2k.
I used Partition Magic to partition and format the new drive. I used Drive Image to copy the active partition from the larger of the 2 orginal drives that were in the system to the new drive's active partition.
When I finished using DI, the orginal active drive's partition was hidden (no idea why, I didn't choose that option) I unhide it and then had to make it active again.

Both active partitions and the 2nd partition of both drivers are accessible. I'm typing this from the copyied drive right now.

I'm new to NTFS and have no idea what happened and how to fix it. I did run chkdisk twice, but it comes up clean.
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Old 05-12-2003, 08:22 AM   #2
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Update...........

I have run chkdsk many times and it never reports any errors. Only chkntfs doea and the Defrag program.
I also tried Norton's Speed Disk and it reported "inconsistencies" with the drive which rules out a bug in Jet Defrag.

Then I ran Jet Defarg from the other bootable drive (2 drives, 2 partitions each, first being active, all NTFS now, or at least tring to be NTFS) and I received the error, but I was able to click through them a couple of dozen times total. Some at the start and the rest and the end of the Defarg process.
I did notice the error message after looking at it closer said it was a file error, not a directory error in the title bar of the box which tells me something else.

I ran MemTest86 and Dr Memory for a total of 18 hours with NO errors. I change the IDE cable also. Remember this is with a drive that was fine before the NTFS and a brand new drive, both with the same problems.

I restored the FAT32 image (I have both a orginal FAT32 image and the image of the orginal drive after I converted it to NTFS). The restored FAT32 image seems fine. NO "dirty" error with chkntfs and no errors with JetDefrag!

It seems the converted image is/has the/a problem. I'm confused just what is wrong and where it is.

I'm hopeing it isn't 'format c:' time!
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