PC Tools 7.0, CPBACKUP, and problem.

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From: Bruce Oneel
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 14:55

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I purchased PC Tools 7.0 on 6/18.  I finally got around to backing up
the system this morning with CPBACKUP which came with it.  So I
started it up, went through the config,  backed things up, and
compared them.  Looked good.  I went off to do some things, and made
some changes to some of my other directories, and came back to run
backup again.  Started it up, got to start backup, got to the status
screen (with % completed and such) and crash.  Mouse worked, but
nothing else.  Reboot, try backup again, crash.  It seemed to stop
right after trying to access the hard disk.  Ok, reboot, chkdsk ok,
diskfix (or what ever they call it) ok, backup crash.  Ok, reboot,
find the config file named cpbackup.cfg, delete it, and try backup
again.  Configs ok, backs up ok, and compares ok.  Now try backup
again.  Crash.  Reboot, try windows backup.  Config it, backup,
compare, ok.  Try it again, it WORKS!  Reboot, windows again, windows
backup again, and it works again!  

It's a fairly clean system.  Started as PC-DOS 4, installed windows,
updated to ms-dos 5.0 (it's a 286 clone).

config.sys has himem, smartdrv, and setver loaded.  Autoexec.bat loads
gmouse.com (for my genius mouse), mirror, the CP delete watcher (I
forget what it's called), and two CP anti virus programs.  I'd be more
exact, but I'm not at home.  While I haven't checked everything, this
is the first part of PCTools which has not worked perfectly.  Any ideas??  

Thanks!

bruce
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Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664

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Subject: PC Tools 7.0, CPBACKUP, and problem.
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