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Re: another page fault !

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Apr 14, 2001
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Everett L.(Rett) Williams wrote:
> Irv,
> 
> I don't know how much budget you have or whether your time is
> worth more than your money, but here is a solution that I have known
> and used for years. This is not an ad. Steve Gibson's Spinrite will
> keep your data fresh and fix most problems on a hard drive that are
> fixable. It has been around since MFM days, and I have been using
> it since before 1990. It isn't cheap($89), but it should keep you from ever
> having to wipe and re-install Windows. Further, wiping and re-installing
> does not necessarily resolve all the problems with a hard drive. If there
> is an area that tends to lose signal over time, Spinrite will detect it and
> either re-write it or mark it as unuseable.
> 

Thanks, I've used Spinrite in the past, and liked it. However, there's no 
physical problem with the disks. It's rogue Windows code randomly 
writing stuff on top of otherwise useful data, I think.

A perfect example from one of my clients: 
His A/R program ( a Medlin program ) crashed. A little browsing the data files 
with Dave's EE showed a bunch of html mixed into the middle of the A/R data. 
Browsing thru the HTML bits turned up a lot of links to erm... "adult" websites.
Now we know what the bookeeper was _really_ doing 
while balancing the books. I chalk this up to IE playing fast and loose with 
its cache. Maybe there's another explanation, but the same computer and 
drive have worked flawlessly since the browsing stopped. 

Regards,
Irv