Hard drive file corrupted after capture big avi file

[unplug]

I had this twice in the past 6 months. I use Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture DV or convert VHS to avi file. Sometimes I use Studio 8 to do everything from avi to DVD. Sometimes I use VirtualDub, TMPEGEnc Plus, and DVDLab-Pro for the same purpose. What happened to my HD was after I reboot my system, windows 2000 told me something is wrong with my 200G datadrive where I store my avi files and edited files. System recommended a check and then I saw a lot of "deleting orphan file ???" (or something like that), after that the system reboot again.

That caused me a lot of files. After the check/fix, many files were gone or corrupted. I kinda believe it is because I had several large files and the file system just got screwed.

What is my best chance for my problem? Like today, I tried to convert a 4.5 hours cartoon and screwed my hd again. This is really pain in the ass.

[jimmalenko]

Make sure your drive is defragged before you capture, and it probably wouldn't hurt (and would probably be quicker than a defrag) to reformat it every once in a while if possible.

[rkr1958]

I see you're running W2K. I had the same problem you had under W2K with a 160-GB SATA drive. The file system kept getting corrupted. After implementing the 48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000 from Microsoft over a year ago I never had the problem again.

What was odd was that I also have a 250-GB IDE drive. I never had problems before or after the fix with that drive. Even though the fix was for W2K SP2 (and below) and, at the time, I was running SP3, which supports large drives > 137GB, I still implemented it. The file system on my SATA drive was getting corrupted about once a week and I was desperate to try anything. To my amazement that fix worked. It may be worth a try for you too.

[unplug]

Thanks. I am running SP4 but I still create the key "EnableBigLba" anyway.

[rkr1958]

Thanks. I am running SP4 but I still create the key "EnableBigLba" anyway.

Good Luck and let's know if works.

And by the way I'm running W2K SP4 now also.