First off, thank you (and the previous poster for the tool) for taking the time to respond.
A couple of points:
1. You do not mention any fragmentation analysis on E:\. Do you use Windows built-in defragmenter or any other software? Could you perform a fragmentation analysis and post the results.
I just use 2003 Server's Chkdsk, I had a bunch of messed up security ids on a lot of files that were fixed last week with a run of it, though I didn't use the /R option of chkdsk.
It seems this week, however, there are more problems with the drive as Chkdsk failed to proceed to stage 3 (see attachment).
Last week it ran through the entire process but prior to it, I took a log as well and here were the results.
---clip from stage 3---
Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 1199770.
Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file 1199772.
100 percent completed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
331043422 KB total disk space.
75801756 KB in 1146897 files.
241548 KB in 52799 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
1277618 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
253722500 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
82760855 total allocation units on disk.
63430625 allocation units available on disk.
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2. Could you also confirm through the fragmentation analysis result about MFT fragmentation. Did you reserve MFT Zone space (by specifying a vaule to the "MFTZoneReservation" value in the Windows registry) when you were first setting up your registry?
Chdsk reports MFT error and I *did not* set aside MFT zone space (this is something I've never even heard of before)
3. What is your average file size, frag analysis would indicate that too?
See 1
4.How much free space have you got on your disk volume?
260gb free space
5. From HP web site, download PAT (performance assessment utility) and run disk volume performance test or you could use something like Nbench (searh on google, you will hit it in less than a sec), post some results too. These tools are aimed at pinpointing errors or to show comparative results between various volumes.
Will check into that file and get back.
6.Have you enabled disk caching from Device Manager on Windows, if you have not try enabling them, see what difference it makes, I would hope that it will make a noticeable difference,
I tried enabling write caching from device manager but it wouldn't save it, the box kept coming unchecked when I went back into it. Perhaps there is a setting on the card that over-rides this?
This is our first server in a long time and definitely a lot of changes on the OS since NT 4.0 so I'm green in a few areas now. I appreciate the assistance.
Anyway, enough thoughts for now, please post your results.
More than willing to help and don't forget to assign points:)
Done :)
