dubs_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeremy DuBois) (11/08/90)
Has anybody else had a problem with Windows 3.0 putting garbage on the harddisk when there is no floppy in drive a:? It has happened twice now. From a file Selector, I will, by accident, click on A:, and it comes up with a message saying it can't read A: (Obviously,, because there is no floppy in at the time) So I select Cancel and it locks the system. When I reboot it's put trash in the windows directory which cannot be removed by anything short of reformating the drive. If I leave the trash there, files start dissappearing, until nothing is left at all on drive C:. Does anybody know what I'm talking about, and why it is happening? -Jeremy DuBois
todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) (11/08/90)
dubs_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeremy DuBois) writes:
%click on A:, and it comes up with a message saying it can't read A:
%(Obviously,, because there is no floppy in at the time) So I select Cancel
%and it locks the system.
I had the same problem with early versions of Screen Peace. Are you using
it? If so, you should be using at least version 1.2. I never had the
problem of losing files or getting a trashed hard drive from it, just the
lockup you describe above.
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*finger = moon; /* finger != moon */cws@janus.Quotron.com (Craig W. Shaver) (11/09/90)
In article <10272@ur-cc.UUCP>, dubs_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeremy DuBois) writes: > > Has anybody else had a problem with Windows 3.0 putting garbage on > the harddisk when there is no floppy in drive a:? ... > Does anybody know what I'm talking about, and why it is happening? > > -Jeremy DuBois Yes! My friend has had a very similar problem and I think it may have something to do with the fact that he uses a scsi disk controller that adds bios entries and win3 can't deal with it. What is your set up? Craig W. Shaver ================================================================ Legend Systems Inc. | Phone: (206) 348-0713 | uucp: hacgate!janus!cws Post Office Box 40297 | craig@tradr2.quotron.com Bellevue, WA 98004 | ================================================================