order of files written when exitting windows trying to pin point a hardware problem with my disk maxtor at group files get corrupted on a regular basis only happens on this drive d had only one corrupt file in over a year and it was under the control of winword on c bit disk access and smartdrive are off since installation of dblspace problem has turned from an annoyance to a reason for murder since the most frequent files corrupted are the grp files are these the last thing written to when exitting windows also are there any pd shareware utilities available that do a more thorough job than dos ndd etc dos and win compatable thanks mike hayes knowledge is good faber college motto www knowledge and thoroughness rensselear poly motto unemployed tech no thank you groucho marx a day at the races driven to banging my head against engineering physics for years
