frustration with NTFS chkdsk errors

[qlark]

Not sure what is going on ... yesterday I did a reboot instead of a hibernate and the Blue screen of death showed up ... the last updates from MS were not critical and this problem started shortly after ... I rebooted with F8 to last known boot but since then I have had nothing but problems.

Does anyone know if there may be a Virus and or trojan that stops a chkdsk /f from running?

I have;

- run an overnight Hardware Diag

- removed .net and reinstalled (chkdsk indicated a problem in the .net directories)

- sfc /scannow

- chkdsk /f does not appear to run on reboot ... chkdsk by itself indicates errors

- NIS 2K5 antivirus Scan

- Spybot 1.4 scan

- adaware scan

- bartpe chkdsk

- defrag

- Norton Systemworks disk doctor ... again startup appears to not be working

- system restore appears to also be broken ... I can select any date but the restore process won't start

 

[qlark]

I actually did some research on Ghost 10 because I was going to buy it ... Ghost 10 does its backup while windows is still running and most of the real technical reviews of this version of Ghost recommended staying clear of it because there could never be any certainty that a perfect image could be obtained from a live Windows OS.

Therefore I am still using Ghost 2k3 which must use MSDOS or PCDOS to do its magic.

Thanx for thinking of me. So far, touch wood, my system has been stable although Norton gave me a bit of a scare this morning by disappearing from my system tray even though the NIS status said it was still active ... I rebooted and have been fine the remainder of the day.

 

[firewolfrl]

LOL, I sure can relate on disapearing systray Icons. About half don't load till you log off then on again.(a flaky startup program is the issue). I just worked around that issue with startup delayer. so far so good.


You ought to look into the Acronis product line for backup.
I have been very happy with Acronis True Image.

http://www.acronis.com/

I make a once a week exact copy of my main working drive. Having a bootable backup saves me from using the sledge hammer on the box.....lol


just so you know the ghost 2003 has some of the same issues as 10....the best one was the old stuff for win 98.