re order of files written when exitting windows in article apr ucsu colorado edu hayesj rintintin colorado edu hayes james michael jr writes 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 are you using fastopen if you are disable it we had a lot of problems with fastopen corrupting weird things including the windows permanent swap file when we were using it since the most frequent files corrupted are the grp files are these the last thing written to when exitting windows indeed they are advanced personal measure tells me they are accessed just before shell dll also are there any pd shareware utilities available that do a more thorough job than dos ndd etc dos and win compatable i really like spinrite and qa plus tom paladin world std com
