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MFT Corruption, NTUSER.DAT and firefox hacks

  • 15-05-2005 12:47am
    #1
    nutzboutstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭


    Have many people experiences Master File Table corruption with windows XP in the past? I work as a sysadmin and its a damn pain in the ass, even with attempted MFT rebuilds the machine will refuse to boot correctly, although mounting the partition under linux seemed have most files there... which i found strange. Managed to disk dump the harddrive for a backup as there was an encypted directory which i needed to recover.

    Another pain is when IE And firefox stop working do to, either NTUSER.DAT corruption or just a screw up somewhere in the local user hive in the registry. Copying the repair directories NTUSER.DAT over is handy enough but its a pain cause the end user looses all there settings. Can be a pain in the ass if someone has oracle or similar set up on there machine...

    Anyone shared these experiences?

    Working on my mac at the moment after a tiger install and just playing with the internals of firefox, do many people alter their about::config settings to speed up firefox at all? Makes a massive difference on a LAN.

    Interesting mix of question...!


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Oddly enough I still prefer FAT32 for the OS partition. Ok it's not a stable as NTFS but it tends to be a lot easier to fix - so I'd reckon less down time overal. Data / Apps are fine on NTFS once you can get into the OS again.

    Corrupt profiles / reg getting trashed - same old, same old


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