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- From: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joel E Callan)
- Subject: Re: DiskFirstAid, files open, can't repair ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.144933.22379@uwm.edu>
- Originator: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Sep8.162428.15041@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:49:33 GMT
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- From article <1992Sep8.162428.15041@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, by sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander):
- > All of a sudden Disk First Aid won't repair one of my drives. It
- > claims that there are files open on the drive. As I have booted
- > from another drive and have opened nothing (at least not intentionally)
- > I'd like to know how I can find out _what_ files are supposedly open.
- >
- > I'm normally under 7, but the drive I boot from (before launching
- > Disk First Aid) has 6.0.7 and I designate it as the system to boot using
- > SystemSwitcher.
- >
- > I've tried the repair several times, with several re-boots and I'm
- > stumped.
- >
- > Any suggestions ?
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > -Sven
-
- An easy solution is to boot from a floppy (Disk Tools disk).
-
- Joel Callan callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- In the meantime, happy computing!
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