videocheez
29th August 2004, 01:36
unable to read the security descriptors data stream error
I recently reformatted my windows xp home comp. I have two external 250 GB Maxtor 5000xt USB drives attached as Fand G. After getting everything started back up, I discoverd that my drive letters had swapped. No big deal. The drive that is now labeld G: has a lot of programs and data that i need to access. I can view files on this comp, listen to mp3's etc... but I run into problems when trying to copy files from G to write to other drives on the comp. Sometimes I'm successful and other times the computer really hangs up and gives write fail errors. When i run chkdsk, it gets to stage three and gives the following message, "unable to read the security descriptors data stream error"
Check disk has effectively not been successful therefore i cannot defrag the drive. I suspect that the drive is highly fragmented but windows says that i cannot defrag until after chkdsk runs.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
VC
I recently reformatted my windows xp home comp. I have two external 250 GB Maxtor 5000xt USB drives attached as Fand G. After getting everything started back up, I discoverd that my drive letters had swapped. No big deal. The drive that is now labeld G: has a lot of programs and data that i need to access. I can view files on this comp, listen to mp3's etc... but I run into problems when trying to copy files from G to write to other drives on the comp. Sometimes I'm successful and other times the computer really hangs up and gives write fail errors. When i run chkdsk, it gets to stage three and gives the following message, "unable to read the security descriptors data stream error"
Check disk has effectively not been successful therefore i cannot defrag the drive. I suspect that the drive is highly fragmented but windows says that i cannot defrag until after chkdsk runs.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
VC