Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Win3 killed my disk -- suggestions? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 04:28:50 GMT References: <27913@cs.yale.edu> <1990Dec29.042453.1762@javelin.es.com> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: bgeer@javelin.es.com's message of 29 Dec 90 04:24:53 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jyu.fi In article <1990Dec29.042453.1762@javelin.es.com> bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer) writes: [...] My failure mode is more clear now...I ran CHKDSK /F within Win3, which is severely no-no'd somewhere in the back pages of the manual. I ran CHKDSK because I got the following messages on screen: Parity error but segment doesn't found Press any key to continue After recovery, this message occurred again...I deleted smartdrive & no such message since. I haven't found reference to this marginal English grammar message in the manual -- does MS hire a lot of foreigners? -- but it was alarming the first time I saw it. [...] (Tried mail, no luck) The reason for the message being in such poor English is that it probably was written by some Taiwanese programmer. "Parity error" type messages come from your BIOS, so you shouldn't blame MicroS*t. The fact that getting rid of smartdrive fixed the error suggests that your memory problem is somewhere in the extended memory -> run a memory test for memory >1024k. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */