NTFS Problem

Saboka32 · Post by **Saboka32** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:49 pm

Ok, I got a new system, AMD 1200 with an Red Storm overclocking utility (But thats turned off), 75 gig hard drive, 256 megs of ram, and for some reason windows XP Pro would not install on a empty hard drive. It would crash when I was at the format part of Setup. So what I did was install 98 and upgrade to XP, whitch worked for a bit. It wasnt the most stable XP after it was installed. It would freeze up at random moments. And after I coverted to NTFS from Fat32, windows started to have major boot up problems. It ran slow and would freeze durning the loading period with the status bar one out of every two times I turned it on. Anyone have a good answer for this? Kinda at a loss here.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:09 am

Wow...sounds like it could be caused by a couple of things...

Bad/incompatible RAM
Failing hard drive
Bad ribbon cable connecting hard drive
Bad CPU
Bad power supply

I'd wager when you ran the conversion to NTFS...the system was wobbly enough to corrupt the files as it attempted to convert them from FAT to NTFS.

Saboka32 · Post by **Saboka32** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:24 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Wow...sounds like it could be caused by a couple of things...

Bad/incompatible RAM
Failing hard drive
Bad ribbon cable connecting hard drive
Bad CPU
Bad power supply

I'd wager when you ran the conversion to NTFS...the system was wobbly enough to corrupt the files as it attempted to convert them from FAT to NTFS.

Every thing its pretty new, but i'll double check connections anyhoo. Thanks Stone. I think I need to get Windows 64 bit Edition to stop the random freezing.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:25 pm

Saboka32 wrote:Ok, I got a new system, AMD 1200 with an Red Storm overclocking utility (But thats turned off), 75 gig hard drive, 256 megs of ram, and for some reason windows XP Pro would not install on a empty hard drive. It would crash when I was at the format part of Setup. So what I did was install 98 and upgrade to XP, whitch worked for a bit. It wasnt the most stable XP after it was installed. It would freeze up at random moments. And after I coverted to NTFS from Fat32, windows started to have major boot up problems. It ran slow and would freeze durning the loading period with the status bar one out of every two times I turned it on. Anyone have a good answer for this? Kinda at a loss here.

Ummmmmmm... you say 256 ram???

WinXp likes to use ram.... and that doesn't sound like enough to me.. I'd say you need at least 512.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:44 am

I agree XP ideally should have 512 megs of RAM minimum for "performance reasons"....but it doesn't NEED 512 megs, installing on a rig with 256 will not cause problems. I've installed it on a rig with only 190 megs...painful as it was, Dell ships some el-cheapo models with 128 megs...and the technical minimum requirements are only 64 megs.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:54 am

Saboka32 wrote:Every thing its pretty new, but i'll double check connections anyhoo. Thanks Stone. I think I need to get Windows 64 bit Edition to stop the random freezing.

ya need a 64bit cpu to use that