Guest Michael O Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 I have a Windows 2003 SP2 box with three ATA disks and one USB drive (also one ATA CD-ROM). It is an Active Directory controller as well as a file share machine. Randomly, usually months apart, it will give ntfs errors in the system log on one or more of the drives. All drives have been affected, no files have ever been lost. Sometimes, there will be a warning in the system tray about a corrupt file, this is the only machine I've ever witnessed a warning in the system tray for file corruption on. Sometimes, my anti-virus software will begin to crash at this time also. The only other symptom I've noticed is that folders that have not been modified get new time stamps (I often sort folders by date). At one time when the problem occurred, about a year ago, I was running Norton, so I uninstalled it and installed McAfee and everything ran fine for a while, recently it all started again. I removed McAfee, reloaded Norton, ran chkdsk on the two drives affected this time, and all is well, for now. I've run SFC, a full virus and spyware scan (the machine is never used as a desktop), it's on a UPS and the problem has persisted through all updates and service pack installs. Obviously, I don't have four disks failing, but I'm not sure just where the problem lies. Any tips would be appreciated.
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