From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 19:44:49 EST
>When I purchased this machine used a while back it had a copy of Win95
>running on it.
>
>I ran the OS/2 Warp 3.0 fdisk and repatitioned the disk, I then formated
>the partitions
>
>C ( 10 megs) IBM PC DOS 7.0 & Win 3.1 FAT
>C (100 megs) OS/2 Warp 3.0 redbox HPFS
>D (100 megs) no OS HPFS
>E (320 megs) no OS HPFS
>
>I didn't think about it at the time but I ran format without any switches.
>
>Now the problem, from time to time a disk access will slow the system down
>so much that at first I believed it was freezing up. However if I leave
>it alone I will receive a message "a device attached to the system is not
>functioning". I now have several files that I have renamed "a bad spot".
>Any attempted to open or use those files will slow the system to sludge.
>
>Now when ever it happens I just rename the affected file. Any ideas?
>
>I'm wondering if there could have been something, like a hibernate memory
>image that the format didn't touch and is just sitting there causing this
>behavior?
>
Have you installed any fixpacks?
>If no one has any better ideas I'll just back everything up and
>repartition and format with the /l switch.
>
That probably would have been the best thing to do in the first place.
I always format using the /l switch.
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