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- From: cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Why do WPS windows take forever to close?
- Keywords: wps windows close time forever
- Message-ID: <cro.712516219@ennews!socrates.ed.asu.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:10:19 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >I think you have really answered your own question, that there is some
- >fatal flaw with the hard drive you have been using. Hopefully the
- >hard drive is still under warranty and can be exchanged.
-
- Yeah--I wondered that too, but do you think that I *really* could have
- gotten *3* bad hard drives in a row? From two different manufacturers?
-
- >As a last ditch effort, though, try the following:
-
- >(1) Perform a CHKDSK /F per the instructions in the OS/2 FAQ List.
- >(2) Perform a restoration to "factory defaults" of the desktop and
- >CONFIG.SYS using the ALT-F1 trick described in the OS/2 README file in
- >the root directory.
- >(3) Perform a reformat/reinstall of OS/2 on that hard drive. The
- >reformat is important -- I would not skip that step.
-
- Already done. I'm currently trying to install with two 100Mb HPFS
- partitions instead of one 200Mb HPFS. Maybe that'll fix it.
-
- Thanks for your suggestions.
-
- Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | North Central Association, Commission on Schools
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