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FRS causes NTFS corruption

I have one of my domain controllers that when FRS begins replicating the Sysvol file I get NTFS event 55 corruption errors until the server locks up and needs re-booting.  As soon as I take FRS back off line the errors stop.  The two servers are in different location supplied by a wireless link, but all other filesharing and internet services work just fine.   When I perfrom a CHKDSK it claims to have fixed corrupt issues and that all is fine.  Then, bam, dozens of event 55 errors.   Any ideas?
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As far as I know there is no 55 event id in the file replication service logs.If you are talking about event id 55 source ntfs,it is related to the disk and there is a hotfix for windows 2003 server:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932578
=or run chkdsk in read only mode on the drive.
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I installed that hotfix.  It looked like it might have been the problem, but it did not solve the issue.  I am not 100% sure it is a FRS or DFS-R issue, I just noticed when I shut off those services, the server didn't lock up over night.  It might just be a coincidence.


Did you run  chkdsk on the drives?
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Yes, I ran CHKDSK and it claims to have fixed errors.  As soon as I logon and open event viewer the event 55 errors start up again.  They occur in clusters.  I might get 6 or 7 and then they stop for maybe an hour or so.  Then they continue again, until it eventually locks up.  I was going to demote the server from a BDC to a application server and see if it is corruption in the Sysvol file  or in the replication of it somehow.
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I defragged it when the issue frirst arose.  There is plenty of free space on the C:, 150GB as a matter of fact.
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