XP and a Corrupted NTFS Firewire drive... PLEASE HELP

[Rizzii]

Hello all,

I have the following system:

1.2 Athalon Processor
Jetway 663AS Ultra Motherboard
768Mb RAM
C:\ Maxtor 45Gb (NTFS)
D:\ IBM 20Gb (NTFS)
E:\ Lacie 6Gb Pocketdrive connected via IEEE 1394 (NTFS)

Soundblaster Live
Geforce GTS64

I recenlty carried out a fresh install of XP onto my PC and as a result Event Viewer states the E: is corrupted and requires a chkdsk. Unfortunately my system freezes when the drive is connected, however the system continues to run when I pull the cable from the pocket drive.

Can anyone recommend a way I assign a drive letter to the external device with a boot disk or tools?

Thanks in advance,

Rizz

 

[Jakespeare]

How about verifying that you have the correct XP drivers for your IEEE hardware, and the Lacie Pocketdrive.

Also, what about FAT32 for the Pocketdrive ?

 

[Rizzii]

Hi Jakespeare,

Thanks for the quick reply...

I am using the standard windows drivers along with the Via inf files from the 4in1 s/w. This is the same combination that I used prior to re-installing windows.

I have found that in Event viewer that sb2port failed to respond in time.

There is also a disk warning that states "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation."

any further advice would be greatly appreciated

Rizz

 

[Jakespeare]

I'm sorry I can't be much help - remotely.
However, I can recommend this:

Get the IBM diagnostic software, from IBM's website.

Run that on the D: drive - that you listed about, it shows that our D: drive is an IBM 20 GIG.

You can completely test it....... and I'm sure it will read the NTFS.

*** ALSO - when I'm using Windows XP - I do NOT LOAD the Via 4in1 drivers. No.
I let XP run everything,,,,,,, and I do NOT want Via setting up IRQ settings .... when I know that XP has FULL functionality for ALL VIA chipsets,,,,,,,,
( The ONLY think I would run would be the VIA AGP 4.10 - but ONLY as an experiment on a GAMING machine.)
XP works so darn good, I don't want to mess with VIA software.......

So, what I'm saying is, I would remove the VIA 4in1.