[Duo2400] Re: Mysterious hard drive problem

[Edgar Peinelt]

Peter, 

you might try a utility such as File Buddy to look at and eventually delete
invisible files from your HD. Norton creates such files for restore purposes
but also during the defragmentation procedure. After a failuure of the
"speed disk" operation, these files cannot properly be read, written and
subsequently deleted automatically. Also you may have lost some byte or
other because Norton uses RAM in the process of rearrangeing data - when you
have to shut down the machine before completion, this data is lost. (Which
is why I recommend "DiskWarrior", a tool much more simple and safe.) Anyway
I am almost certain you will find huge invisibles on your HD.

HTH
Edgar
> 
> --- Stephen Kenda <sk at interlog.com> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> Did you check the Memory control panel?
>> 
>> If virtual memory were set to about 250mb that would
>> explain it.
>> 
>> stephen kenda
> 
> 
> I just checked the memory control panel, and virtual
> memory is turned off, as it usually is. I also
> restarted with RAM Doubler, which I usually run, off,
> and once again the problem remains. Thanks for the
> suggestion, though. Any other ideas?
> 
> -Peter
> 
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