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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:48:40 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot hang: still there

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Wayne,

When you say that it takes 20 minutes to restore your desktop, do you
mean that because you had to shut down your system dirty that it took 20
minutes for CHECKDISK to go through its function on your system? Is that
what's taking so long??

HCM
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Peter Skye wrote:
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> Wayne Cypress wrote:
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> > is it normal to take 20 minutes restoring an old desktop?
>
> No. You may have some hardware problems. If you are running DANI's
> drivers you can use her DiskInfo.exe to look at some drive statistics.
> Here's my DaniDiskInfo.cmd file which I use to do this (I'm 1600x1200,
> you'll have to change the MODE command to suit your display and your
> command line window font):
>
> @echo off
> mode 80,81
> echo ---------- DiskInfo -? ----------
> DiskInfo -?
> echo ---------- DiskInfo, no parameters ----------
> DiskInfo
> echo ---------- DiskInfo -v ----------
> DiskInfo -v
> echo ---------- DiskInfo -s ----------
> DiskInfo -s
> echo ---------- DiskInfo -c ----------
> DiskInfo -c
> pause
> echo ---------- DiskInfo -i ----------
> DiskInfo -i | more
> pause
>
> > haven't dared archive this desktop
> > yet for fear of losing others.
>
> Move your current archives to a new "safety" directory. Then you can
> continue to make archives.
>
> - Peter
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