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....the entry will be truncated.

Feb 27, 2004 6:13PM PST

Win XP Pro SP1.
While booting up--after the welcome screen and just before the desktop came on, I was distracted for a moment and looked back at the monitor to find a full screen with light blue background and lines of white letters scrolling up....it was too fast to read them all, but I managed to note the end: "....the entry will be truncated." After that the desktop came on. There seems to be no problems. My question is- what could have caused that error message during booting up ? Thanks.

christy.

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NT - Is it consistant on every boot or was it simply ''one of those things''??
Feb 27, 2004 8:45PM PST

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Re:....the entry will be truncated.
Feb 27, 2004 9:11PM PST

One of those things. Thanks.

christy.

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Re:....the entry will be truncated.
Feb 27, 2004 9:45PM PST

CHKDSK does this and it's documented it will do such on security descriptors. The article on the how and why is at http://support.microsoft.com such as...

http://www.jsiinc.com/sube/tip2200/rh2217.htm writes at the end This is normal behavior and does NOT indicate a problem with your file system. The issue is the same for XP. As it's a known non-issue, I'll leave it up to you to do more research to find the XP version of the same text.

"Windows 2000 chkdsk reports cleaning unused security descriptors?


If you run chkdsk againt an NTFS volume, it may report that it found problems:

C:\>chkdsk c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running chkdsk in read-only mode.

chkdsk is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
chkdsk is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
chkdsk is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run chkdsk with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

If you then schedule a chkdsk /f, shutdown and restart, your Application Event log may contain something like:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event ID: 1001
Computer: Computer_Name
Description: Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 153 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 153 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 153 unused security descriptors.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

When you remove a file or folder that had 'custom' permissions, the ACL is not deleted, it is cached. Chkdsk /f removes ACLs that are no longer used.

This is normal behavior and does NOT indicate a problem with your file system. "

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Re:Re:....the entry will be truncated.
Feb 27, 2004 11:15PM PST

Thanks. Interesting article. I have the FAT32 file system by choice instead of NTFS, and I did not run chkdisk. I have ran System Restore since; to let the problem, if indeed there was one, take care of itself. Hopefully, it was a once-only event.

christy.