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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:17:07 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"scoug-help" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Power failure... chkdsk

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Some time back, I'm not sure exactly when, I began having problems when I
have to do an unscheduled reboot without a normal shutdown, ...for instance
if I have a power failure (or occasionally when I have a lockup that seems
to be connected with my Mozilla browser getting tangled up with Netscape).
Today was such a day: I forgot the computer was running when I cycled the
circuit breakers while working on an appliance problem.

Formerly, an automatic chkdsk was launched during reboot and the system
would then continue on and come up fine. Lately that automatic chkdsk
complains that it can't find the root system file (I think that's what it
calls it, I forgot to write it down), then it says it's searching the drive
for it, then it says it's searched 100% of the drive and it just hangs there
forever (after issuing that message).

I can boot from the Warp4 diskettes and run chkdsk off them and it runs
fine, with this message every time:

"chkdsk corrected an allocation error for file OS2\HELP\_CACHE0.DB"
(whatever that is)

Occasionally there might be another allocation error before it runs to
normal completion, and then I can reboot from the hard drive without further
problems.

Not a big deal, I can live with the extra 15 minutes or so that it takes to
reboot from diskettes on these rare occasions, but I'm puzzled as to why it
suddenly started having this problem.

Anybody have any comments?

Thanks,

Wayne

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