Re: FIle corruption on HPFS partition

Trevor Hemsley wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 20:21:22 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, Peter J Seymour <moz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


'm still getting the problem after the partition re-format, so I'm inclined to agree that the HPFS file system is not at fault.
On the hardware front - it's a thinkpad with a dead battery, so it's running only on mains power. Could that really be the cause of the problem? As to the hard disk, it's a travelstar abount four years old.


I think I've seen something similar before on a soon-to-be-ex-hard disk. I doubti f there's a way to prove this without watching it fail though.

I have a spare unused hard disk, so I will try that (prefereable to abandoning a whole thinkpad). Fortunately I have a holder for fitting a second disk, so I can just xcopy the os/2 partitions. I will worry about
re-instating windows later.
I expect to report back in a few days time.
Regards
Peter
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