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From: kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard disk / DOS problem
Keywords: Killdir users: beware!
Message-ID: <2254@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 19 Oct 90 00:24:27 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Lab
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Killdir is a program which I acquired from the simtel archive at WSMR.MIL.
It will delete non-empty directory trees.

Anyway, I was running it on a deep but sparsely populated directory tree when
it failed due to a stack crash.

Well, something funny has happened to my disk. The only symptom so far is
that when I try to use any of various norton utilities, norton replies that 
it can not be run on a network or subst'ed drive, ie as if I had created a 
subst'ed drive, S:, had logged S: as my drive and was then trying to run 
Norton.

But I was on C:, the same drive that these norton utilities had run on before
the most recent attempt at using Killdir.

This problem persisted after I had rebooted and recycled the power.







-- 
Chris Kushmerick

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