topic Re: Anyone seen this C:\$MFT ? in Windows Server 2003

Anyone seen this C:\$MFT ?

name_27 — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:14:34 GMT

Application popup: Windows - Corrupt File : The file or directory C:\$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.

Quite new installation of W2K3 in BL20g3

Happens two times today.

Re: Anyone seen this C:\$MFT ?

Ron Kinner — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:20:40 GMT

It's talking about your Master File Table. Supposedly you get this when you have too many files or not enough space allocated for it but you can also get it if your harddrive has a bad sector where they put the MFT. Do like they say and run chkdsk. See if it finds a bad spot.

See:

http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index.php?showtopic=10769&st=0&#entry36898

Ron

Re: Anyone seen this C:\$MFT ?

name_27 — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:50:31 GMT

There was 250K entry in Eventlog, several per second.

Stopped when server freezes with
The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.

After reboot:
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x9.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Repairing the security file record segment.
Cleaning up 191 unused index entries from index $SII of file 9.
Cleaning up 191 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 9.
Cleaning up 191 unused security descriptors.
Mirror security descriptor block different from that of
master security descriptor at offset 0x0.
Fixing mirror copy of the security descriptors data stream.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

35557184 KB total disk space.
5342272 KB in 23218 files.
5796 KB in 1613 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
49484 KB in use by the system.
22544 KB occupied by the log file.
30159632 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8889296 total allocation units on disk.
7539908 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
40 62 00 00 0a 61 00 00 23 69 00 00 00 00 00 00 @b...a..#i......
4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f4 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 O...............
f6 73 da 01 00 00 00 00 6a 47 f5 03 00 00 00 00 .s......jG......
78 6e fc 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xn..............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 a1 5a 10 00 00 00 00 ........X.Z.....
f0 69 be be 00 00 00 00 f0 69 be be 00 00 00 00 .i.......i......
b2 5a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 46 01 00 00 00 .Z.........F....

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Works few hours and same thing again.

Re: Anyone seen this C:\$MFT ?

Jon Finley — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:18:31 GMT

Sounds like a physical media defect (disk has a bad area on it).

This can mean that you have one or two bad areas on your disk, or at worst, can mean that your disk is failing.

You can try scheduling a full surface scan at next reboot to try and re-map the bad areas.

If this continues, I would look at replacing the disk.

Jon