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Date sent:  3-FEB-1996 09:19:10

Da Zhang,

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>Hello,
>
>I have a Pentium 60 with a 730mb Western Digital hard drive.. I often have
>some directories on the hard drive damaged or crosslinked. As a result, I
>have to reinstall windows and most other programs for windows after I fix
>them. I guess it may be caused by the CPU malfunction because of its overheat
>or some defects of the hard drive. I have a CPU cooler on the top of CUP.
>How to locate the cause and how to solve it? Anyone had the same problem
>before? I appreciate any advices and suggestions.
>
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I currently manage a public lab and a computer classroom loaded with PC
Windows (3.1.1) based machines.  I have noticed the problem you described
above often of those machine and come up with the following conclusions:

Cross linked files may happen when:
  * The student decides to power off the machine while WINDOWS might
    be doing some housekeeping.  I have noticed this if students power
    off the machines right after they exit an application.

  * DOS based programs "shelled" from WINDOWS seems to generate cross
    linked files again if students power off the machines before Windows
    decides to housekeep.

  * Limited memory causing files to "cache" back and forth to the hard
    drive may cause this too.  One of our classrooms has only 4MB of total
    memory.  Windows on these machines constantly swaps information to the
    hard disk.

Those are some of my assumptions about cross-linked files w/Windows.
Anybody else have any encounters?

Bernie

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