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Article #7684Re: Win3 killed my disk -- suggestions?
From: Joe Wasik
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 20:19
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 20:19
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In article <1990Dec21.022146.7301@javelin.es.com> bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com writes: >I was playing with multiple sessions -- WordPerfect, Windows Paint, & >GWS shareware gif viewer. I tried to alt-esc while GWS was running >(displaying a .gif in 640x480x256), the screen went "funny" (wierd >colors, mostly), & I had to re-boot. Now, I get parity errors from my >disk, CHKDSK shows lots of bad first allocation thingys, & naturally >some programs & directories are not accessible anymore. You didn't mention what kind of disk you're running. Is your's > 1024 Cyl? If yes, do you use a special driver, e.g. SSTOR.SYS? If yes again, remove SMARTDRV.SYS from you config.sys. A question to those in-the-know: Is there any news when Microsoft is going to fix this compatibility problem????? -- Joe Wasik, Pacific Bell, 2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA (415)823-2422 email: jcwasik@clib.PacBell.COM or [...]!pacbell!clib!jcwasik
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!pbhyf!jcwasik From: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Win3 killed my disk -- suggestions? Keywords: Windows parity help Message-ID: <8436@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Date: 21 Dec 90 20:19:32 GMT References: <1990Dec21.022146.7301@javelin.es.com> Reply-To: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 18