Guest Jean-Philippe Vert Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Hi all, first of all, sorry but English is not my first language. I have a SBS 2003 running for more than 1 year now without any particular problem. 2 weeks ago, I encountered some corrupted files on one of the partitions (425GB, 200GB used). The file system was so corrupted that chkdsk was aborting without any error message. Finally I reformated the partition and started to restore the files but the NTFS corruption was back (during the restore process). For testing purpose, I deleted the partition and splitted it in 2 (200GB and 225GB). I can copy or restore files without any problem on the first partition but on the second one I still have trouble. A Chkdsk on the newly formatted parttion gives me a lot of errors. Or chkdsk tells me that the partition is RAW. What is very strange is, that this partition is on a RAID-5 volume (with all the 3 other partitions), there is no RAID error (Intel SRCS16) and no NTFS errors on the other partitions. Except that, all is running well (Exchange, Sharepoint, VPN, etc.) and the RAM is OK. I have no clue, so any help will be very appreciated. Thank you, Jean-Philippe
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: corrupted NTFS Jean-Philippe Vert <jpvert_remove@cyberlogic.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > > first of all, sorry but English is not my first language. > > I have a SBS 2003 running for more than 1 year now without any > particular problem. > 2 weeks ago, I encountered some corrupted files on one of the > partitions (425GB, 200GB used). > The file system was so corrupted that chkdsk was aborting without any > error message. > Finally I reformated the partition and started to restore the files > but the NTFS corruption was back (during the restore process). For > testing purpose, I deleted the partition and splitted it in 2 (200GB > and 225GB). I can copy or restore files without any problem on the > first partition but on the second one I still have trouble. A Chkdsk > on the newly formatted parttion gives me a lot of errors. Or chkdsk > tells me that the partition is RAW. What is very strange is, that > this partition is on a RAID-5 volume (with all the 3 other > partitions), there is no RAID error (Intel SRCS16) and no NTFS errors > on the other partitions. Except that, all is running well (Exchange, > Sharepoint, VPN, etc.) and the RAM is OK. I have no clue, so any help will > be very appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Jean-Philippe Hi - your English is fine. However, as SBS is a tightly-integrated system and tends to do things differently, I suggest you post your future SBS questions in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. I'm setting up my reply to crosspost to that group now.
Guest SuperGumby [SBS MVP] Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: corrupted NTFS I haven't heard of it happening with the particular RAID controller you are using but it's a (thankfully relatively rare) probability that the RAID array is experiencing a particular form of error. Can't think, off the top of m' head, what the error is described as. IF this is what is occurring, and it seems likely, you need to completely delete and recreate the array. PS. Yes, I only picked up on this because LW brought it to the SBS group. The question is a more general Q but we tend to have a fast turnaround here, if it involves SBS this is the place to be. PPS. Your English is better than my Biddleonian. "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in message news:e2q5I8xeIHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Jean-Philippe Vert <jpvert_remove@cyberlogic.ca> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> first of all, sorry but English is not my first language. >> >> I have a SBS 2003 running for more than 1 year now without any >> particular problem. >> 2 weeks ago, I encountered some corrupted files on one of the >> partitions (425GB, 200GB used). >> The file system was so corrupted that chkdsk was aborting without any >> error message. >> Finally I reformated the partition and started to restore the files >> but the NTFS corruption was back (during the restore process). For >> testing purpose, I deleted the partition and splitted it in 2 (200GB >> and 225GB). I can copy or restore files without any problem on the >> first partition but on the second one I still have trouble. A Chkdsk >> on the newly formatted parttion gives me a lot of errors. Or chkdsk >> tells me that the partition is RAW. What is very strange is, that >> this partition is on a RAID-5 volume (with all the 3 other >> partitions), there is no RAID error (Intel SRCS16) and no NTFS errors >> on the other partitions. Except that, all is running well (Exchange, >> Sharepoint, VPN, etc.) and the RAM is OK. I have no clue, so any help >> will be very appreciated. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Jean-Philippe > > Hi - your English is fine. However, as SBS is a tightly-integrated system > and tends to do things differently, I suggest you post your future SBS > questions in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. I'm setting up my reply > to crosspost to that group now. > > >
Guest Holz Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Re: corrupted NTFS On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:35:44 -0500 "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote: >Jean-Philippe Vert <jpvert_remove@cyberlogic.ca> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> first of all, sorry but English is not my first language. >> >> I have a SBS 2003 running for more than 1 year now without any >> particular problem. >> 2 weeks ago, I encountered some corrupted files on one of the >> partitions (425GB, 200GB used). >> The file system was so corrupted that chkdsk was aborting without any >> error message. >> Finally I reformated the partition and started to restore the files >> but the NTFS corruption was back (during the restore process). For >> testing purpose, I deleted the partition and splitted it in 2 (200GB >> and 225GB). I can copy or restore files without any problem on the >> first partition but on the second one I still have trouble. A Chkdsk >> on the newly formatted parttion gives me a lot of errors. Or chkdsk >> tells me that the partition is RAW. What is very strange is, that >> this partition is on a RAID-5 volume (with all the 3 other >> partitions), there is no RAID error (Intel SRCS16) and no NTFS errors >> on the other partitions. Except that, all is running well (Exchange, >> Sharepoint, VPN, etc.) and the RAM is OK. I have no clue, so any >> help will be very appreciated. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Jean-Philippe > >Hi - your English is fine. However, as SBS is a tightly-integrated >system and tends to do things differently, I suggest you post your >future SBS questions in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. I'm >setting up my reply to crosspost to that group now. > > > Can you give some details about your RAID card, and whether it has the latest firmware applied? I had a similar issue and found it to be related to two issues, and ended up breaking the array, low level format each drive on a different card, which showed on drive was bad, and then updated the RAID card firmware. The issue was fixed afterwards (INTEL card). -- Holz :-)
Guest Jean-Philippe Vert Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 Re: corrupted NTFS Sorry for the delay, I was away for the week-end. The Intel Raid Controler has the firmware 713N, which seems to be 3 versions old. So I have to flash it and test the disks one by one. Do I really need to delete the array ? Thank you for the help. Jean-Philippe "Holz" <holz@my-laptop.nowhere> a écrit dans le message de news:20080229142629.1570bbbf@IT01.ladco.local... > > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:35:44 -0500 > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" > <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote: > >>Jean-Philippe Vert <jpvert_remove@cyberlogic.ca> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> first of all, sorry but English is not my first language. >>> >>> I have a SBS 2003 running for more than 1 year now without any >>> particular problem. >>> 2 weeks ago, I encountered some corrupted files on one of the >>> partitions (425GB, 200GB used). >>> The file system was so corrupted that chkdsk was aborting without any >>> error message. >>> Finally I reformated the partition and started to restore the files >>> but the NTFS corruption was back (during the restore process). For >>> testing purpose, I deleted the partition and splitted it in 2 (200GB >>> and 225GB). I can copy or restore files without any problem on the >>> first partition but on the second one I still have trouble. A Chkdsk >>> on the newly formatted parttion gives me a lot of errors. Or chkdsk >>> tells me that the partition is RAW. What is very strange is, that >>> this partition is on a RAID-5 volume (with all the 3 other >>> partitions), there is no RAID error (Intel SRCS16) and no NTFS errors >>> on the other partitions. Except that, all is running well (Exchange, >>> Sharepoint, VPN, etc.) and the RAM is OK. I have no clue, so any >>> help will be very appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Jean-Philippe >> >>Hi - your English is fine. However, as SBS is a tightly-integrated >>system and tends to do things differently, I suggest you post your >>future SBS questions in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. I'm >>setting up my reply to crosspost to that group now. >> >> >> > > Can you give some details about your RAID card, and whether it has the > latest firmware applied? > I had a similar issue and found it to be related to two issues, and > ended up breaking the array, low level format each drive on a > different card, which showed on drive was bad, and then updated the > RAID card firmware. The issue was fixed afterwards (INTEL card). > > -- > Holz > :-) >
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