Advice sought on Dual/Triple Boot Win XP from PATA and SATA drives

Zander - very interested to hear that that I am not lone sufferer of 'MPS - Missing Pagefile Syndrome' - there must be others out there too, I guess

Christer - the exact month in which this problem first occurred escapes me, but it was definitely in the first part of this year.

Incidentally I was using Diskeeper Pro 9 on the original build and have since upgraded to v10 on the new build. On both I enabled/used Fragshield to prevent fragmentation of the MFT and padded it where necessary. The MFT would appear to be dynamic, but with the drawback that once the disk space initially reserved for the MFT is exceeded more space is taken from elsewhere, but it is not contiguous. Hence the MFT becomes fragmented.

From Diskeeper 9 Help ....

 

The native XP defragger is sooo much more efficient ...... ...... than Diskeeper Lite! When I was running Diskeeper Lite, it took a few weeks to get the BSOD but after reverting to the native XP defragger, it took only a few days.

This time, the error was STOP:0x0000008E and the blame fell on the file nv4_disp.dll. This error has been seen before. I am running the Microsoft video drivers as installed during setup and it has worked well until april 2005. I will restore the latest image and install the most recent drivers recommended by NVIDIA.

Anyone wanting screenshots, just say so and I will post them in a new thread!

Christer

Edited:

"I am running the Microsoft video drivers as installed during setup and it has worked well until april 2005. "

SP2 added the current drivers and my XP CD is a RTM with SP2 slipstreamed.

 

Referring to post #60 and #62:

Today, I had a BSOD with a different error message:

A lot more was said but that's the "bottom line ".

Some searching revealed that the 0x0000000A error is hardware/driver related.

Installing the latest NVIDIA drivers replaced the nv4_disp.dll with a more recent version and it at least changed the error message. However, the pagefile was relocated, just like before.

Now, I have also installed the most recent VIA drivers which are suitable for the (ageing) chipset. (I'm installing new drivers one by one to see if I can find the culprit. Soundblaster PCI 128 drivers are next.)

DK-lite is still uninstalled.

Christer