| From: | Bob Rickman |
| Date: | 27 Aug 2001 at 08:44:00 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS problems.. |
Hi Sam,
> Morning everyone :-) (depending where you are!)
>
> I'm having a slight niggle with PFS3 (v18.5).
>
> Recently one or two of my drives have been running sluggishly, so I
decided
> to try out the PFS-Defrag program on aminet to try and clear the problem
> up. I backed all my data up first of all just incase so I wouldnt loose
> anything. Part way through the _back-up_ process I get 'HD8: is a Non DOS
> disk,' with Retry or Abort buttons. If I retry the backup continues and
the
> backup is complete (same size).
>
> I also tried PFS-Defrag on it and it did exactly the same thing, where as
on
> another partiton it runs fine (my Games: one)
>
> Could it just be a simple case of a program running in the background
> attempting to write to the partition while its 'invalid'? It always tends
> to give the error about 5seconds into the backup or defrag operation.
>
> I also tried remaking the partition to no avail! :-/
>
> Any ideas?
> --
When something like this happens to me it is usually caused by "Voice Clock"
or some such prog. It trys every 15 minutes to collect a sample from my Work
partition and because the drive is BUSY it can`t access it and hence the
error message that you report.
Hopoe this helps,
Regards,
Bob Rickman
Devon UK
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