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Article #6197Re: PROBLEM: Stacker / Smartdrive
From: Jim Erickson
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:39
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--- -- Jim Erickson ZZZZ EEEE OO SSSS ZEOS International, Ltd. support@zeos.com INET Z E O O S Technical Support Dept. uunet!zeos!support UUCP Z EE O O SSS 530 5th Ave N.W. 800-228-5390 VOICE Z E O O S St. Paul, MN 55112 612-633-7337 ZZZZ EEEE OO SSSS FAX 612-633-4607
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zeos!jre 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> References: <1992Sep27.172642.863@unine.ch> Lines: 46