Stargazer
12-04-2002, 11:56 PM
I had a rather strange problem earlier, which I was able to replicate but has now gone away. Given that it involved potential data loss I would like to run it past the members of the forum here - and also ask if others have encountered this so as to rule out it being a One-Ed OS specific problem. I did a search on the forum but did not find anything similar.
When I ran Optimise (from Atelier's Essential Disk Utilities patched to Build 052) on the C: drive, the Netbook hung when defragmentation started. After exiting with Ctrl+Shift+Fn+K, CheckDisk reported a problem with the indirect pointer not pointing at anything and stated that it could not fix it. I was able to copy the disk contents onto CF so no data was lost, but I was not able to format the C: drive afterwards (with either the standard format or EDU SmartFormat). Both hung, requiring a reset. I then did a hard reset (pen in the hole) which did clear C: and I was able to copy the CF contents back (skipping the system files which gave a "Corrupt File" error).
I repeated this (Optimise on C) and had the same result except that my power-on password had somehow been altered so I could no longer get past the startup screen. I did the hard-hard reset (batteries out) and reloaded the OS from CF.
In both cases, the CF with the OS was in the Netbook. When I repeated the process a third time, without the CF, all ran smoothly. I put the CF back in, Optimised again and everything still worked.
So if anyone else runs into the same problem - try taking the CF out. But aside from a dodgy CF (and Optimise was installed on C, CheckDisk reports no probs on CF itself), can anyone suggest a possible cause?
When I ran Optimise (from Atelier's Essential Disk Utilities patched to Build 052) on the C: drive, the Netbook hung when defragmentation started. After exiting with Ctrl+Shift+Fn+K, CheckDisk reported a problem with the indirect pointer not pointing at anything and stated that it could not fix it. I was able to copy the disk contents onto CF so no data was lost, but I was not able to format the C: drive afterwards (with either the standard format or EDU SmartFormat). Both hung, requiring a reset. I then did a hard reset (pen in the hole) which did clear C: and I was able to copy the CF contents back (skipping the system files which gave a "Corrupt File" error).
I repeated this (Optimise on C) and had the same result except that my power-on password had somehow been altered so I could no longer get past the startup screen. I did the hard-hard reset (batteries out) and reloaded the OS from CF.
In both cases, the CF with the OS was in the Netbook. When I repeated the process a third time, without the CF, all ran smoothly. I put the CF back in, Optimised again and everything still worked.
So if anyone else runs into the same problem - try taking the CF out. But aside from a dodgy CF (and Optimise was installed on C, CheckDisk reports no probs on CF itself), can anyone suggest a possible cause?