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From: bjorn.myrland@sipaa.sintef.no (Bjorn Myrland)
Subject: Re: Why I'm not using Dos 6 anymore
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 11:26:52 GMT
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In article <1993Apr28.141743.28994@ugle.unit.no> eliza@tigern (Elisabeth Bull) writes:
>From: eliza@tigern (Elisabeth Bull)
>Subject: Re: Why I'm not using Dos 6 anymore
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 14:17:43 GMT

>Mark Woodruff (CDA90038@UCF1VM.BITNET) wrote:
>> 
>> This morning at 4 am while I was working on my research paper, I had to
>> reboot a hung Dos program (that did no disk i/o) from within Windows 3.1.
>> When my machine finished rebooting, I found my windows directory and about two
>> thirds of my other directories were irreversibly corrupted.
>> 
>(stuff deleted)

>This sounds like what happened to my HD a month ago. My HD was stacked
>with Stacker v.2.0 (I run Dos5) Suddenly everything hung up, and most of
>the HD got corrupted (directories changed into unreadable files with
>'funny' names). In other words: it is probably just the doubledisk part of
>Dos6 that is troublesome. 

>I now use Stacker v 3.0, and so far I have had no trouble. 

Does this need to have anything to do with disk compression? I have 
experienced the same thing a couple of times myself, but *without* any disk 
compression stuff installed. (For example, guess what happened when Norton 
SpeedDisk once crashed during defragmenting!)

Bjorn-

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