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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is 2.0 even worth installing?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.205404.27992@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:54:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.105709.773@mec.ohio.gov> <1992Dec27.192409.9675@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1992Dec28.082908.774@mec.ohio.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec28.082908.774@mec.ohio.gov> smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov writes:
- >I tried to run the HPFS (before I found and read the FAQ). My 210M hard drive
- >was constantly being accessed, and it sounded bad. Also, chkdsk was enabled on
- >startup, and at each startup it found more errors than the last time. Since I
- >have gone back to a FAT-only system, I haven't had any problems.
-
- That doesn't sound like a memory problem. That sounds like you're not
- selecting "shutdown" from the desktop menu before powering the system
- off. So you left buffers unwritten, and clobbered pieces of your disk
- each day.
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