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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Is 2.0 even worth installing?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan4.205404.27992@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Jan 93 20:54:04 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec27.105709.773@mec.ohio.gov> <1992Dec27.192409.9675@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1992Dec28.082908.774@mec.ohio.gov>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <1992Dec28.082908.774@mec.ohio.gov> smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov writes:
  14. >I tried to run the HPFS (before I found and read the FAQ).  My 210M hard drive
  15. >was constantly being accessed, and it sounded bad.  Also, chkdsk was enabled on
  16. >startup, and at each startup it found more errors than the last time.  Since I
  17. >have gone back to a FAT-only system, I haven't had any problems.
  18.  
  19. That doesn't sound like a memory problem.  That sounds like you're not
  20. selecting "shutdown" from the desktop menu before powering the system
  21. off.  So you left buffers unwritten, and clobbered pieces of your disk
  22. each day.
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  24.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  25.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
  26. ((|,)                        | source of these .signature virusses
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