From: paladin@world.std.com (Thomas G Schlatter)
Subject: Re: ?Order of files written when exitting windows?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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In article <1993Apr22.001934.14921@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> hayesj@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (HAYES JAMES MICHAEL JR) writes:
>
>Trying to pin point a hardware problem with my disk, Maxtor
>7213AT.  Group files get corrupted on a regular basis.
>Only happens on this drive, D had only one corrupt file
>in over a year and it was under the control of winword on C.
>32-bit disk access and smartdrive are off.  Since installation
>of dblspace problem has turned from an annoyance to a reason for
>murder.

Are you using Fastopen?  If you are, disable it.  We had a lot
of problems with fastopen corrupting weird things (including
the Windows permanent swap file) when we were using it.

>
>Since the most frequent files corrupted are the *.grp files,
>are these the last thing written to when exitting Windows?

Indeed they are.  Advanced Personal Measure tells me they are accessed
just before shell.dll

>
>Also, are there any pd/shareware utilities available that do
>a more thorough job than dos 6, NDD 4.5, etc?  DOS 6 and 
>Win 3.1 compatable.

I really like Spinrite and QA Plus

Tom
paladin@world.std.com

