mstoer@sol.uvic.ca (Marcell Stoer) (03/09/91)
I have a small problem with a directory/file on my hard drive. I got a piece of software from a company selling Lock-In Amplifiers (Stanford Research Systems) that is suppose to run my LIA over the GPIB. I tried it out and it crashed. Upon rebooting the computer I found out that the LOCKIN directory I had created for all this software was locked to my access. Ie evertime I tried to "cd" to it or delete it or whatever, I got an Access Denied from DOS. I tried using Norton to figure out what's wrong, but I had no success. I then reformatted my hard drive (low level) and restored my hard drive from FASTBACK. No problem, I screwed around some more with the software from SRS and it eventually did it again. I called them up they told me there is nothing wrong with their program. I find out that I had one of the parmeters set wrong on my GPIB config. for their device, and this caused the crash. So I went thru the reformat and restore again and successfully ran their soft ware. A second run of their software without turing the LIA on turned out to provude the same problem, only that the directory did not lock itself until I re-booted. This was a pain. I used Norton's diskediter and delete everything that had to do with that directory and it's files. The FAT reads 0's for all those clusters now, but the directory name is still their somewhere. That is, I cannot create a directory called LOCKIN although it doesn't show up on the listing when I do a 'dir'. If I try and del or rmdir it, I get an access denied. Norton's wipefile hangs trying to remove it and filefind can't find it. Norton's fs (filsize) gives me it's creation date and size, but fa (file attribute) finds nothing peculiar with it. I did a search on the drive for "LOCKIN", using norton's search for data system and found nothing. Does anyone know where this directory entry is located, so I can get rid if it? I have all my file space back from the files I removed, I just want to make a clean sweep of things without constantly reformatting and restoring. e-mail or post, it doesn't matter. thanks, marcell -- the batman