Another reason to avoid Windows XP and Microsoft utterly [View All]

[Deja Q]

FOr about three months, my video capture computer has been powered off, totally unused.

It has two hard drives: 40GB and 160GB.

The system was fine 3 months ago.

Today, I powered up the system as I want to record a show.

The whole 160GB drive was seen as corrupt by WinXP, 0 bytes free! (the 40GB drive is free)

I rebooted the system.

XP ran chkdsk and wiped out two of my captured video files. I don't trust what's left on the drive, but that's okay because I've all that backed up.

XP has SP1 installed. I am using NTFS.

I'd expect this sort of crap from prior versions of Windows, but not XP using NTFS.

And to think, Microsoft is working on a file system based on relational database technology (WinFS). :scared: So far, it is the buggiest aspect of the new Windows release in 2006. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1368390,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 for more on the new Windows version, which will probably destroy Microsoft ( :party: ) but kill the PC industry as well. x(

Oh, the system is virus-free. :D