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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:12:05 PST7
From:	Wayne Cypress <waynecypress@compuserve.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "INTERNET:scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot hang: still there

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>Wayne,
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>I also use SCSI (the second hard drive, partitioned as D:\) as well as a=

>master IDE hard drive for C:\, E:\ and F:\. OS/2 is on C:\. Concerning
>my last comment about CHKDISK, I notice that CHKDISK takes considerably
>longer to run to completion for the SCSI drive (5 to 7 minutes) versus
>the IDE drive (about 2 to 3 minutes). I do not know why. The SCSI drive
>is much faster.
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>So..., is it CHKDISK that's the problem, when you try to restore your
>system?
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>HCM
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I don't think chkdsk is involved at all. I was talking about choosing a
desktop restore off the bottom of the initial boot selection screen. I
suspect that chkdsk is influenced by the size of the partition, the forma=
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type, and the amount of movement/change in file structures that occurred =
on
the partition since the last reorg or format. In my case I'm not sure if =
a
chkdsk against an HPFS drive would be the same as for a FAT drive either,=

or if it makes any difference. =

Interestingly, when it hangs (after the config.sys statements are listed,=

during the blank blue screen just before the desktop begins to appear) an=
d
I have to ctrl-alt-del to reboot, chkdsk doesn't get invoked as it would =
if
you were to do that with the desktop up & running (chkdsk always occurs
early in the reboot before many of the config.sys statements are listed).=

Wayne

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