Hello,
Please can someone help me out here, I have been suffering a device driver related problem with windows XP SP3 and my LaCie x1 Terabyte external backup disk drive unit. Which is a large disk drive attached via USB 2.0 port. The event log (system event) keeps showing "fdisk" warnings [The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.]
**I found the root cause of the problem which is a corrupted file called USBSTOR.SYS which is located at c:\windows\system32\drivers.
**I found a fresh copy of usbstor.sys on driver guides website of which I'm a member. I downloaded it & renamed the old file and replaced it with the fresh version. Everything has been working great (as perfect), a couple of hours later the old errors are back once again & windows explorer cannot see drive G:\ (external disk drive unit) Same old problem, now I have found that XP (windows file protection system) has replaced the perfect working file version with the corrupted usbstor.sys so I am back to square one. Thanks to windows file protection system !! :-(( Great job at screwing things up again in a few seconds.
QTN:- does anyone know how I can get round the windows file protection system and replace the working file. So that windows doesn't overwrite the working file with a corrupted back up version from else where inside XP?? I have no idea were XP is getting the backed old damaged version from but I have watched XP overwrite the good file with a damaged one.
PS:- Just typical of Microsoft to create a feature that is supposed to protect the system but actually makes life 100% more difficult when trying to fix a genuine problem. Sometimes I totally hate MS software for this kind of reason.
Any help would be much appreciated?
Thanks Ivan