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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 18:11:52 EDT
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- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: File0000.chk
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- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 28 Aug 92 15:16:30 EDT
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- I wrote:
-
- > >Unless you *know* that clusters found by CHKDSK belong in a file
- > >that you had open when your power failed, it is best to delete them.
-
- To which Robert Braham responds:
-
- > b) if I had Colorado Memory Systems "TAPE Format" program running,
- > than what could've been "open"? Nothing, right, but for it?
- >
- > Still anxious (but less so),
-
- The TAPE program should not have left any lost clusters upon power
- loss, unless you were using it from a DOS shell rather than from the
- primary DOS environment (as you would, for example, if you had
- "exit"-ed from NB, or used the "dos" NB command to get a DOS command
- line). If you were shelled from another program and the *other*
- program had files open in write mode that could be the source of the
- problem.
-
- One bad habit that many computer users get into is just turning the
- machine off when done, without regard to the current status of the
- file system. Always quit all programs all the way back to DOS before
- turning off the machine or rebooting. If in doubt, type "exit" at the
- DOS command line a couple of times to see whether another program
- magically springs up. Also, if you are using a disk cache with staged
- or delayed writes, *always* wait until all disk activity has ceased
- before powering down. If you are a belt *and* suspenders type like
- me, you will manually flush the cache buffers before power down just
- to be certain.
-
- Running CHKDSK will often then recover lost clusters that are caused
- by these dangerous habits, which have been accumulating unsuspected
- for some time. That may be what happened in this case...
-
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