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Frodak wrote:
 > Back up your stuff.
> 
> This happened to me before days before ntfs.sys
> deleted itself.  I then asked my boss for a new
> hard-drive and then did a fresh windows install.
> 
> I had bizarre issues.
> 
> Amongst what you described that happened for a while,
> the following occurred and increased in occurrence:
> 
> 1) DR Watson kept on popping up sometimes when running
> make.  Then it seemed to pop up randomly.  It neve
> did report what crashed, only that something had
> crashed.
>   
> 2) The environment would never be stable.  I'd open up
> cmd.exe (10 times in a row) and sometimes the PATH
> settings would be correct, otherwise it would be
> truncated.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Frodak

Thanks. I'm not experiencing any issues with Windows though. DOS prompt
works. GUI works. No issues at all. It's only when I'm in cygwin that
anything bizarre starts happening.


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