\Device\HardwareVolume3\$Mft Message

Denise_M · Jan 4, 2007

Hi,

I have Windows XP Pro SP2. I just ran Ccleaner, Dial-A-Fix to flush DNS and Process Idle Tasks, ran RegSeeker (deleted only the green files and cleared stream mru's), ran PC onPoint, emptied Prefetch, and defragged my C drive. When I rebooted, I received a message that said:

Windows was unable to save data for the file \Device\HardwareVolume3\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.
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I don't have a network connection. I have 2 internal hdds and I had 1 external hdd turned on at the time. All 3 hdds seem to be working fine, with no lost data that I can see right now. Is there something that I can check or fix?

Denise

Kniht · Jan 4, 2007

Whenever I have something unusual happen and have just used a registry cleaner, I go into the reg cleaner backups and add them back to the registry. Just in case I may have deleted something I shouldn't have.

Just a suggestion.

DavidGP · Jan 5, 2007

Possible that you need to unplug the external HD and reboot as its likely that during the cleanup routines the external drives letter is missing or changed and marked the drive asn unmounted.

Unplug external HD > reboot > plug external back in.

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