Help Me, Big Annoying Problem!!!

[PriZm77]

Ok for the past 2 weeks my Hard Drive has been f'ed up.

I use a FAT32 File system and these are the problems I'm having:

It's a 30GIG 7200 RPM Maxtor

I have my drive partitioned into 2 14.2 gig FAT32 partions with drives C and D

When I right click my CDRIVE it says 9.53 GB is in use

But when I go into my C drive, highlight everthing , it says

6.20 GB is in use.

there are 3 hidden files in the recycling bin that I cannot delete or restore, i can't view them and viewing hidden files is on.

if i try to defrag my hard drive, it tells me to go run a disk error checking, the file system checker that starts with windows when you dont shutdown properly

So, I reboot and it autostarts, it will check drive D which has no errors

then it goes to C and used to do this:

it found 3 invalid linked files in the recycling bin

it would find a lot of cross-linked files in Content.IE5 folder

now it freezes at one of the cross-linked files

my drive was doing that a week ago, i just ran another disk error check and D has no errors, it then goes to C and finds 1 cross-linked file then freezes.

Please, somebody help me

[PriZm77]

wow....... this is just farking annoying

I reviewed the properties of my cdrive, it says 10gigs now in use

Now i just discovered

C:WINDOWSsystem32LogFilesWMItrace.log is a 500MB file

about 10 days ago, the same file, in the same place was 4GB, yes I said 4GigaBytes, not mega or kilo, but giga. What is this file logging? I cant view it or delete it right at the moment.

[XPerties]

First of all you need to get all of the following:

A trojan detector called [b:c92f9a487d]The cleaner[/b:c92f9a487d]

[b:c92f9a487d]Nortan Systemworks[/b:c92f9a487d] (I prefer becuase it finds so many errors and promblems with broken links and shortcuts, not to mention it has a defrage that seems to do a much better job than the built in one, on top of that it contains Nortan antivirus which is another thing you need)

You need to run "The cleaner first" (update the def fiorst) and run it on your entire system. I believe youll find something you dont want. After that run NAV, then get [b:c92f9a487d]addaware[/b:c92f9a487d] and run that. Sounds like your system is bugged and you need to spend a day and unbugg it.If you need any help with getting these files Let me know through a PM.

-XPerties

[Guest LouCypher]

There is also a thread on another board going on with the same problem here:

http://board.iexbeta.com/cgi-bin/ib2/topic...um=6&topic=1861

Their solution was to rerun [b:2a2156dda8]BOOTVIS[/b:2a2156dda8], which gets rid of the TRACE.LOG file entirely.

You can also get a tool called TraceDump from Microsoft at this location:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../tracedmp-o.asp

That will analyze the TRACE.LOG file and output it as a .CSV you can view in Excel or some other program. It didn't do me much good because my file isn't so big, but you might find some use for it.

A warning[/color:2a2156dda8] before you use it. The resulting output file (whatever.CSV) can be REAL big, about twice the size of the TRACE.LOG file, or more. Make sure you have ample disk space on the drive you are running TraceDump from.

[DSL Tech]

Since someone brought up defraggers for XP....I personally like Executive's Diskkeeper....the newest version supports XP and will defrag the pagefile if you are using NTFS which Windows defragger doesnt do.....