Guest Kent Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 For about the last week or so my Drive C: will not retain changes made to files on that drive. I noticed this when Windows kept asking me to install the same updates over and over. While exploring this problem, I found that any changes made to Drive C: remain in effect until the next reboot or startup, but are wiped out after the reboot/startup., such as changes to an Excel desktop short cut or a Word file saved to Drive C:. Fortunately, all of my data files are stored on other physical drives (Drive D: and E:), but this is why I didn’t notice the problem right away. If I boot up in Safe Mode all changes can be made and they remain in effect even after a reboot, so the problem must be associated with a Windows XP Pro setting. My computer is running Windows XP Pro, SP3 and all available updates. I have three physical hard drives: Drive C: is two SATA drives running under Raid 0, the other two drives are SATA drives as well. Note, all drives appear in My Computer, but only one, Drive D: appears under the Disk Management display. Drives D: and E: appear to be working normally.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 Re: Drive Write Error "Kent" <Kent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DD5AB10E-7EE8-49FD-92CC-E1231E1CCCC4@microsoft.com... > For about the last week or so my Drive C: will not retain changes made to > files on that drive. I noticed this when Windows kept asking me to install > the same updates over and over. While exploring this problem, I found > that > any changes made to Drive C: remain in effect until the next reboot or > startup, but are wiped out after the reboot/startup., such as changes to > an > Excel desktop short cut or a Word file saved to Drive C:. Fortunately, all > of > my data files are stored on other physical drives (Drive D: and E:), but > this > is why I didn't notice the problem right away. If I boot up in Safe Mode > all > changes can be made and they remain in effect even after a reboot, so the > problem must be associated with a Windows XP Pro setting. > My computer is running Windows XP Pro, SP3 and all available updates. I > have > three physical hard drives: Drive C: is two SATA drives running under Raid > 0, > the other two drives are SATA drives as well. > Note, all drives appear in My Computer, but only one, Drive D: appears > under > the Disk Management display. Drives D: and E: appear to be working > normally. > I had a similar problem some time ago. It was caused by some corruption in the NTFS file system. Repartitioning/reformatting/reloading the lot from backup fixed it.
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