First post, by arizonapalms
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I've been dealing with a weird issue on my Win98SE installs over the last two years or so.. Not sure exactly what causes it but have been pulling my hair out. Curious if anyone else has seen this before.
Happens with all forms of hardware, no SSD or SATA bull either, just IDE spinning rust with DMA enabled.
Here's usually how it goes (how i've been able to replicate it anyway):
- Either copy a large file (600mb or so) over FTP using any client - InternetExplorer, FileZilla, FlashFXP
- At some point during this transfer, I get some kind of error from the FTP client that the drive is full (false) and the entire file system of C: is corrupt, instead of the file/folder structure it's just random files and folders with random characters in their names.
- This also happens if unzipping a large file using 7zip or WinRAR
What I have done:
- Rebooting is futile as the drive is corrupt
- TestDisk shows there are some files there, but the MBR is unrecoverable
At this point, i just keep a second drive in there with a ghost image that i recover from *when* it occurs. I also avoid doing any kind of larger file operations. Anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? I thought it was related to network overloading the HDD write-ahead, but I can trigger this just by unzipping a file.