Re: Windows2000 - System Files Deleted, Winlogon 100%, Data Deleted in Other Partitions

From: Colon Terminus (Colon_Terminus_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:38:31 GMT

I would suspect faulty hardware. Hard disk or RAM. Download and run memtest86 for 16 hours or so. Go to the hard disk manufacturers
site and download and run their DOS disk integrity checking software.

"Anurag Jain" <janurag@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:8217a02d.0311290106.54962c1e@posting.google.com...
> Dear All,
>
> For past few months I am facing problems on my windows 2000 server.
>
> My Development environment needs of following,
> IIS, VB6, MS Office 2000, MS SQL Server Client
>
> My PC contains my web-site code that is mainly written in ASP/HTML
> and certain VB COM Components.
>
> At random times, sometimes in 1 day or 2 day or max 15 days, my
> operating system crashes and I have to do a complete reinstall. The
> behaviour is as follows,
>
> 1. System becomes very busy. A lot of hard disk activity starts
> happening.
> 2. Some system Files goes missing such as all msc files etc. Even
> sometimes task manager also refuses to open up.
> 3. Event Viewer, which i had to open using mmc console, shows alot of
> "Windows File Protection" in System Log saying an attempt was made to
> replace the blab, blab blab... This message is repeated for hundreds
> of system files.
> 4. In task manager, Winlogon says 100%.
> 5. After doing a force shutdown the pc refuses to start up, saying -
> "ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupted" or "Operating System Missing"
> This Message appears according to what time the shutdown was forced
> (I
> must have done 50 reinstallation so far.) If as soon as I had an
> inkling
> that the system is going down and I shut it down, it says
> "c_1252.nls
> missing", if little later then "Hal.dll Missing", more later
> then "ntoskrnl.exe missing". If much more later then "Operating
> System
> Missing"
> 6. Using another system and attaching my Hard disk to examine it, I
> found
> many of system files were deleted, some data was deleted, sometimes
> complete
> partition info is gone.
>
> I have applied every patch that microsoft has supplied.
>
> I have tested and tried around 20 antiviruses and about 15 firewalls.
> Scanned my site code and other data thouroughly before crash and after
> crash through all these anti viruses. Not a Single Virus reported.
> Anyway this problem has come with other servers also that did not
> contain these files.
>
> I have disabled admin shares, removed netbios configuration and tried
> every trick to secure my system that microsoft keeps on giving for
> securing servers.
>
> I have even changed my OS to Professional/XP and even NT and NT
> workstations.
>
> I have tried with both All FAT partitions as well as with ALL NTFS
> partitions.
>
> I have changed my PC hardware as well. Shifted location in the office
> also :-).
>
> The only thing that has kept my PC working longest, was no preplanned
> thought. It was like a "Tea Boiling Experience" in "Three Men in
> Boat". You have to convince the PC that we are not worried about it's
> going down and show no concern for it. You can't say or even think "I
> am going to finish this work today" over a cup of tea. You can't
> design anything away from your PC.
>
> One more thing as long as you keep working on the OS it is all fine,
> but you give it or urself just 5-10 mts of rest, without shutting it
> down, pop it goes down.
>
> Give me some options so that I can stop bulshitting around.
>
> Regards,
> [Anurag Jain]