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Article #146Re: Windows crashes drives
From: Mathias Freuler
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 00:00
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Peter Schulz wrote: > > Hi to all, > > I got a big problem with a Windows PC. > I spent a old 386'er of my sister a upgrade with a Biostar VL-bus motherboard > a 486'er / 66 CPU from Intel a VL-matrox controller and a new VL - graphic > card. > No this happens: Sometimes windows pretends that the drive c:,d: or a: is > full (it isnn't !) or the controlls of for example Winword 6.0 do not allow > to change to that drives. Sometimes all !! drives are affected to it so no > saving is possible. > > Had anybody else such a problem and maybe a solution ? > Maybe the Ontrack diskmanager so this effect (the bios of the old board > wasn't able to access the HD over 528 MB) > > I would be very grateful if somebody maybe a magican would speak with me > about the reason and wha i can do. I practise magic with the bios and the > Startup files but with no effect. > > please send me a E-Mail and make me and my sister happy. > I will send you a original postcard from the famous reperbahn for a solution > or a good helping. > > Cu Peter Schulz > Peter_Schulz@public.uni-hamburg.de Hi Peter, I had this effects in my office. If I were you I would check first: Your HD for lost clusters or chains (CHKDSK /F or Scandisk) Very often the swap file is corrupt cause of unproper shutdowns. Maybe you also have the Winword Macro Virus on some of your Winword-Document files. Please let me know, wether it worked or not. Greetings Mathias Freuler m.freuler@tic.ch
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102788,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid102788,public X-Google-Thread: f53aa,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53aa,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public X-Google-Thread: 1102f1,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid1102f1,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: 1115d3,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid1115d3,public X-Google-Thread: 10f4ae,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f4ae,public X-Google-Thread: fda7f,952b7e02f0f8847 X-Google-Attributes: gidfda7f,public From: Mathias Freuler <m.freuler@tic.ch> Subject: Re: Windows crashes drives Date: 1996/05/26 Message-ID: <31A8680A.50B1@tic.ch> X-Deja-AN: 156820022 references: <N.051896.090940.23@a1.extern.inet-nb.de> <31A8DCC8.3B1B@public.uni-hamburg.de> to: Peter Schulz <fr6x154@public.uni-hamburg.de> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Unisource Business Networks mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,de.comp.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows,gay-net.computer x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win95; I)