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Can't write to C drive??
Name: Lamar Date: July 4, 1999 at 15:37:21 Pacific
Comment:
Hi I have an older 386 i get a meesage that says can't write to c drive. This happens in dos as well as windows 3.1. Anybody know whats wrong???
Name: Igor M Date: July 4, 1999 at 21:02:02 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
I think there are two posibilities. Either you have bad clusters on your drive or you have no free space on it. If you have bad clusters run Scandisk and perform surface scan. Scandisk will mark bad clusters and your programs will not attempt to write to them anymore. If you have no free space on the drive remove some unnecessary programs and/or data files.
Good luck, Igor M
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Response Number 2
Name: graeme Date: July 7, 1999 at 01:20:54 Pacific
Reply:
actually another problem is that you may have too many files in the one directory typically the root.
take a look if igors advice didn't pan out
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Response Number 3
Name: sandman6 Date: July 16, 1999 at 16:10:36 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds like you need to do a surface scan on the drive.....it will have problems if there are bad clusters on that drive
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