Last cluster on Drive C

[WildTech]

Hi gang

I recently installed a new hard drive in a system for a client. The system is on a network and is very basic. Vid card and nic card are all thats installed and it is a point of sale machine that runs the software off the server. When the old 4.3 WD hard drive went nipples up, I Ghosted it over to a new 10.2 WD (smallest I had in stock) and everything was ducky. The machine ran perfectly with no errors for 6 monthes.

Another local company recently installed a new server at the same location and now when they first start up in the morning they are having problems with this work station. Not everyday but maybe 2 -3 times per week. It generates the following message. "ScanDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. The cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may need to have LBA enabled to work properly, or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. Data loss can occur if your LBA setting or disk partition type for this drive is misconfigured." If you simply hit "OK" the machine ignores the error and runs great for the rest of the day.

Since the bios only gives the option to run AUTO or USER I'm guessing that this issue is a result of forcing a smaller drive partition onto the larger drive with Norton Ghost. What drives me crazy is that this configuration worked great until the new server was installed. If you run scandisk it reports no errors on the drive.

Am I going to have to reformat and partition this machine to correct this error or do I have other options???

Thanks in advance for any input or suggestions