Mail Archives: opendos/2001/09/03/23:24:15
I've used the F-prot frequently but realisticly if not windows how often are
"dos" users running across any bugs any longer? All of the windows bugs I
am sent are fun to look at but there really nothing but a pile of code I
don't understand and I've never come across a dos bug in 10 years plus.
Are they out there?
If so, they couldn't do any harm without the user running a .exe or .com
program anyways.
Just wondering others view.
Mark
On 2001-09-04 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
-Unless you are using M$W 9X and LFN, why not use CHKDSK
-instead of SCANDISK. It's much more robust and might not have
-this problem. Also, check how much memory you have and if it's
-got any defects. Finally, get F-Prot (www.complex.is) and check
-for viruses.
-Joe.
-> -----Original Message-----
-> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 7:47 PM
-> Hi,
-> I run scandisk and defrag regularly. I always use the surface
->scan option in
-> scandisk. My hard drive is 540Mb.
-> On 2001-09-01 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
-> >On 1 Sep 01, at 1:57, . wrote:
-> >> Hi all,
-> >> I use MS-DOS 6.2. I have two hard disk (drive C and D:). I
->have a >>133 MHz. processor with 32MB RAM.
-> >> Since last week I have noticed that Scandisk has been taking
-> >>incredibly long to scan my D: drive. When I try to exit
->Scandisk >>at the end of the scan I get a message which
->states: >> "Unable to load command interpreter".
-> >> This only happens when I scan the D: drive. I also notice
->that >>there is sometimes a thirty seconds delay when I try
->to save on >this drive. >
-> >> Can anyone hazard a guess as to what my problem is and how
->I can >correct it. >
-> >How big is your D drive? Have you ever defragged it? When
->you run >Scandisk, do you do the surface scan? Does Scandisk
->show any errors >before you exit? Try booting the system with
->F5 (press F5 as soon >as
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