Microsoft KB Archive/125904

= Client Data is Corrupted When Written to an NTFS Server =

Article ID: 125904

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5

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This article was previously published under Q125904



SYMPTOMS
Files created on an NTFS server volume by a network client may contain zeros (NULs) in place of the data the client software intended to write. The client software may not immediately detect that the data has been corrupted if the client is using caching. Looking at the file from the server or from another client will show that the file contains zeros.

This problem occurs very infrequently and requires extensive file creation to reproduce. Only one corrupted file was encountered in one a test machine when 30,000 files were created during heavy disk activity.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use a File Allocation Table (FAT) or a High Performance File System (HPFS) partition.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: KB125904

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