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Re: B19 corrupts NTFS???
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: B19 corrupts NTFS???
- From: vtailor at gte dot net
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 02:21:37 -0500 (CDT)
- Cc: juolja at utu dot fi
> Juha Jäykkä (juolja@utu.fi)
> Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:35:42 +0300
>
>I have been experiencing a corrupt NTFS partition when running B19. It
>corrupts again in a week after I run chkdsk /f on it. This corruption has
>ONLY happened when I use b19 a lot and having refrained from using it for a
>couple of months ceased the corruption and corruption returned when I
>restarted using b19. This is really weird. Does anyone got an idea why this
>is happening? Workarounds?
> BTW please cc your reply to me, I don't have time to dig through all the
>stuff going on on the list.
>
You didn't say what kind of a motherboard your computer uses. There is a
well-known problem involving certain chipsets and PCI motherboards, and
Microshaft recently posted a Windows 95 upgrade that addresses the problem
of corrupting directories, and, I suppose, files as well.
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