I have taken a break from my Windows 8 posts because I am having a problem with my Windows 8 environment.
I have a Dell Studio 540 that has worked for a couple years without any problems. To try out Windows 8 I purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 500 GB SATA drive, switched the SATA cable from my old drive to the new one and installed the Windows 8 x64 RTM from MSDN. Initially it worked ok but after about a week of off and on use I started getting corrupt files on the drive and it eventually got to the point where none of the restore tools in Windows 8 could fix the problem. At this point I ran the Seagate diagnostics on the drive but it didn’t find any problems.
I re-formatted the drive and re-installed Windows 8, and again after a couple days I got corrupt files. I also checked the event log this time and noticed NTFS errors in the log. As a final test I re-formatted the drive but installed Windows 7 this time. I have been running Win 7 on the drive for over a week now with no problems, so it appears to be an issue with Windows 8.
If anyone has seen any issues like this with Windows 8 please let me know. I’ll also post here if I find a resolution to the problem.
8 comments:
hmm not exactly same but having real issues getting win 8 to boot on my system, reports both hard drives have errors and seemed to have corrupted a couple of files. all worked fine for first hour then went from bad to worse, now only works in safe mode. system ran windows 7 just fine before yesterdays attempted new install of windows 8. first issue I've had with any windows 8 installs and I've done a few :-)
What was the file system type? NTFS?
or the newest one?
I did a third re-format and re-install a couple weeks ago and the machine has been running fine since then without any errors. I have one theory as to what the problem might have been. I only just noticed that when I shut down Windows 8 the screen goes blank well before the computer actually turns off. I have my computer on a power strip so I think I might have been turning off the power at the power strip before the computer had actually shut down.
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