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Re: PROBLEM: Stacker / Smartdrive

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From: Jim Erickson
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:39
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In article <1992Sep27.172642.863@unine.ch> Louis.Egger@bota.unine.ch writes:
>Hi!
>
>I'm running into a real GREAT problem...
>
> Since a few days STACKER is turning me into a mad PC User. >:-[]
>
> Well i'm going to expose ( as clearly as possible ) my problem.
>
> I 'Stacked' my Hard disk ( 100 MB -> 200 MB ) and for many months had no 
>troubles at all. Recently I put an erase-protect (The EP from Norton) on my 
>stacked drive and a disk-cache (SmartDrv.exe from Microsoft) on my uncompressed
>drive. It all worked fine for several weeks BUT SUDDENLY my stacked drive get
>Write-Protected by the program STACKER and since then i can only read my 
>stacked drive (absolutely unpossible to write (or delete) a file on that drive)
>8-o
>
> I re-booted my computer and STACKER reported that the Stackvol.dsk file was
>damaged (and therefore write-protected the drive).
>
> I checked the stacked drive with SCHECK.EXE the answer was that there was just
>one lost cluster in an EP file ( but no problems at all on the UNcompressed 
>drive ) and that i should first correct CHKDSK /F but it wasn't able to repair
>it ( the drive is always write-protected )....
> 
> I also tried the Norton Disk Doctor the result was the same: unable
>to correct the problem (can't write on that disk).
>
>Help me, i don't want to format my Hard Disk and loose 200 MG of Programs!!
>
>WHAT CAN I DO ????
>
>
>
>Louis

   If you cant fix it why not just back it up and make a new stacked drive.
That way you wont lose 200MB of programs.
---JRE---

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From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Stacker / Smartdrive
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:39:39 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Sep28.163939.24571@zeos.com>
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