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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: FLOPPY disk problems
Summary: bug seems to be screen peace...
Keywords: <drive not ready, cancel/retry>
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.021647.5110@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 02:16:47 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.184003.13470@agate.berkeley.edu> ohst-ag@garnet.berkeley.edu (Timothy Moy) writes:
>In article <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>>I've been experiencing a funny problem with Win3, and I'd like to know
>>if anyone else has had the same problem. If I access a floppy drive
>>from *any* application, and there is no disk inthe drive, Windows
>>comes back with a dialog box telling me that there is a problem with
>>the drive, and asks if it should cancel or retry. Regardless of which
>>button I press, windows crashes and reboots my computer. 
>[Various details deleted]
>
>I discovered the same problem last night, right after installing 
>ScreenPeace.  My 286 hangs up (but does not re-boot on its own).  I
>just talked to a friend who found a much more vicious variation on the
>same problem: the absence of a diskette in the floppy drive hung the
>system but also munged the root directory of his hard disk.  After
>recovering (both his data and his composure), he un-installed ScreenPeace
>(he was using only the clock spx), and found that the problem went away.
>
>When you noticed this problem, was ScreenPeace running?
>
>I'm at my office now, and haven't had a chance to try any of this on my
>286 yet.  More later.  BTW, I AM running the version of ScreenPeace recently
>posted at cica that supposedly fixes the clock.spx error.  Also, I think
>ScreenPeace is (otherwise) a wonderful program.

Tim, 

Thanks for your help. I uninstalled screen peace, tried drive B, which
has nothing in it, got the error message, and am still doing fine.
Incidently, I posted that version of screen peace to cicia, along with
scrnpeac.txt explaining why I'd posted it. So the problem persists. If
someone can send a message to the author, I'd love to see it fixed. It
is a really nice program, if it were not for the little problems it has.

kartik

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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon