Boot Camp v. "Volume Needs Repair"

[fuzion1029]

I installed Boot Camp and windows xp with sp2. Everything was working fine, then windows started doing a disk check when I booted into it. It would say everything was OK, continue booting, almost finish, then restart. It would do this loop until i just booted into OSX and used disk utility on the Boot Camp partition. The first time it did this, I got windows to work again by deleting the files listed and repairing the disk. Then I had the same problem again and after a couple times, i couldn't fix it. However, I can get windows to boot up into safe mode. Every time this has happened, it's been the same basic files that show up on the disk check list.

Any suggestions?

Verifying volume “BOOT CAMP”
** /dev/disk0s3
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/Validate.dat starts with free cluster
Truncate? no
/Documents and Settings/Birke/ntuser.dat.LOG has too many clusters allocated
Drop superfluous clusters? no
/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM.LOG has too many clusters allocated
Drop superfluous clusters? no
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Lost cluster chain at cluster 851991
1 Cluster(s) lost
1 Cluster(s) lost
o
Clear? no
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (5) not free
fix? no
17624 files, 2641584 free (1213675 clusters)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 non HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair


Thanks!

 

[_nelsonc]

I installed Boot Camp and windows xp with sp2. Everything was working fine, then windows started doing a disk check when I booted into it. It would say everything was OK, continue booting, almost finish, then restart. It would do this loop until i just booted into OSX and used disk utility on the Boot Camp partition. The first time it did this, I got windows to work again by deleting the files listed and repairing the disk. Then I had the same problem again and after a couple times, i couldn't fix it. However, I can get windows to boot up into safe mode. Every time this has happened, it's been the same basic files that show up on the disk check list.

Any suggestions?

Verifying volume “BOOT CAMP”
** /dev/disk0s3
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
/Program Files/Common Files/Symantec Shared/Validate.dat starts with free cluster
Truncate? no
/Documents and Settings/Birke/ntuser.dat.LOG has too many clusters allocated
Drop superfluous clusters? no
/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM.LOG has too many clusters allocated
Drop superfluous clusters? no
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Lost cluster chain at cluster 851991
1 Cluster(s) lost
1 Cluster(s) lost
o
Clear? no
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (5) not free
fix? no
17624 files, 2641584 free (1213675 clusters)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 non HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair


Thanks!

Is the disk configured as FAT32 or NTFS? FAT32 is very susceptible to corruption like this. I think there is a utility called NTFSConvert or something like that which will allow you to convert the volume to NTFS.

 

[fuzion1029]

It was FAT32, but then I just reinstalled windows and formatted it as NTFS and it still got messed up. I'm using Boot Camp Beta. Could this mean that there is a problem with my hard drive?