home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!pan.mc.ti.com!rgam.sc.ti.com!rgammon
- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: What is HARDERR.EXE doing to my disk?
- Message-ID: <930108132820@rgam.sc.ti.com>
- Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
- Lines: 17
- Sender: usenet@pan.mc.ti.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:28:19 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan8.133829.15837@piston.detroit.ingr.com> rimelsjj@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Jim Rimelspach) writes:
-
- >> After turning my 386SX on this morning, there was an unsual amount of disk
- >> activity. I have no apps other than the WPS running. My disk is formatted
- >> HPFS. I opened a OS/2 Window and did a PSTAT cmd, the last process in the
- >> list was HARDERR.EXE. What's the story??
-
- I too have HPFS. I have much more than just the WPS running. PSTAT puts
- a LONG list of stuff out, and HARDERR.EXE is there as the last item in the
- list of things that have .DLLs open. I suspect that it is monitoring for
- defective disk locations to relocate data when a sector becomes defective.
- Sounds like you are seeing HARDERR.EXE at work fixing bad sectors.
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
- (713)-274-3299 (voice)
- (713)-274-2324 (fax)
-
-