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File corruption in Vista

  • 10-03-2008 11:53am
    #1
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭


    Ok don't laugh :o

    Over the last few days I haven't been happy with my HDD performance in Vista, so i've been trying a few things to help speed up boot time, like disabling uneeded services, installing SP1, setting up a defrag schedule for my MFT, Pagefile and registry... etc

    Over the weekend I decided to use an old USB stick as a readyboost drive, which set up ok but didn't really give me any noticable improvement.

    I then noticed under the HDD options for my RAID 0 the "Enable advanced performance" option. (you can find it by right clicking on your C drive and selecting properties>Hardware>(your HDD)>Policies)

    I noticed it said "Recommended only for disks with a backup power supply" but I thought "heck, I haven't had a power outage in nearly a year, and the fuse box never trips"...

    well for comic effect, that thought had not even left my mind when the missus plugged in her Iron and tripped out the whole apartment :eek:

    I restarted to be met with a chkdsk screen, it proceeded to fix some errors then booted into Vista. But now both my logitech drivers for my mouse and msn messenger are saying they can't run because a file is either missing or corrupt, the file is in C:/WINDOWS/winsxs which I don't have permissions to replace.

    I've looked around and there doesn't seem to be anyone else out there with my issue, so I guess its a reinstall for me tonight :( I wanted to shave a few seconds off my load time and ended up wasting a whole day debugging this issue... :confused: c'est la vie.

    Anyway, just a warning to anyone else out there thinking about enabling this option for there HDD's


Comments

  • #2
    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Ouch :(

    Gotta hate when that happens.


  • #3
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Ouch. Whats the file?


  • #4
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Ouch. Whats the file?

    Its called "msvcp80.dll"... but rather than take the chance that a load of other files are corrupt, and just aren't showing up because I haven't accessed them yet, i'm just going to do a clean reinstall. I only recently reinstalled my OS anyway so it won't be too big of a hit.

    I never really listen to OS warning because they are usually quite liberal (like if it says it will cause corruption, it usually will only happen once in a blue moon) I didn't think this warning would be so accurate :(


  • #5
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    sorry to hear it dude..... but...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law :D


  • #6
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Its called "msvcp80.dll"... but rather than take the chance that a load of other files are corrupt, and just aren't showing up because I haven't accessed them yet, i'm just going to do a clean reinstall. I only recently reinstalled my OS anyway so it won't be too big of a hit.
    Ya, probably safest option is a reinstall. Pain.


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