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Dave Inglis

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Mar 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/17/00
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I cannot get Windows95 to load as there appears to be a crosslinked file and
it just shuts down. To make matters worse I have a partioned hard disk with
'H' as the host for 'C' which is compressed. The error appears to be in 'C'
but Scandisk wont operate on it due to lack of memory.

Anyone got any good ideas to correct this??

Cheers
Dave

Dean Shafer

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Mar 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/17/00
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You have a major problem. Go here, for what would appear to be some pretty
sound advice:

http://www.skwc.com/Prepare/startdisk.html

Another example of why disk compression may sound like a good idea, but the
best idea is to stay away from it.
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Dean
dsh...@tir.com
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RAHbert

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Mar 18, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/18/00
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Dave Inglis wrote:
>
> I cannot get Windows95 to load as there appears to be a crosslinked file and
> it just shuts down. To make matters worse I have a partioned hard disk with
> 'H' as the host for 'C' which is compressed. The error appears to be in 'C'
> but Scandisk wont operate on it due to lack of memory.
>
> Anyone got any good ideas to correct this??
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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HI Dave,

I constantly preach that any form of HD Compression is a time bomb, and
accident waiting to happen.

It looks as if yours exploded.

Try booting your system with an emergency diskette, then see if you can
uninstall DriveSpace, or whatever compression method you used.

While ScanDisk, Norton Disk Doctor, or comparable products can do
wonders with repair and recovery of cross linked files, etc., when
damage occurs to the compressed drive, you may lose it all.

I have tested all software and some hardware HD compression methods, and
my findings support my recommendation to users to avoid them like a
plague.

With the present low cost of large hard drives, it is better to buy as
big a drive as you can afford (and that your system will support), than
to resort to unreliable HD compression. I don't care what the software
developers claim about them, I have spent MANY, MANY hours of recovery
each time one of the products tested has destroyed my system.
--
Cheers,
BobH
"Cats fill in all the empty spaces in the human world.
The comfortable ones." - Marion C. Garretty, b. 1917

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