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In article <goudswaa.749258053@sfu.ca> goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard) writes:
> You could check out the latest version of Mark & Release.  They have
> a MARKNET & RELNET (or something like that) which saves more environment
> info, and is less likely to give you problems.  I find it very unusual
> that MARK & RELEASE would screw up your fat, unless you released
> SMARTDRV before flushing the cache.  Alternatively, switch to another
> disk cacheing program that allows you to remove it from memory with
> a command line switch like /U.  I think most others allow this.

I used a batch file along the lines of:
    smartdrv /c
    release smartdrv

(I forget the exact syntax). I also tried MARKNET and RELNET. The problem 
was that there was no noticable damage at first / just machine crashes. 
It wasn't until the mark/release progs disappeared that I realised the 
extent of the damage. (The affected drive was a Stacked one for what it's 
worth, although I've had no problems with Stacker either before or since, 
and I'm more inclined to blame the fault on smartdrv given the odd things 
I was trying to do with it. I doubt the mark/release utils were to 
blame, either.)

I now use Norton's NCACHE2 (from Norton Utilities v7) which does 
uninstall correctly.

Mark.
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