re program manager kills my group files in article reiqj qtr access digex net bsmith access digex com barry smith writes any clue some times when i enter win progman says that i need to rebuild a group it s quite annoying i ve had the same problem with a maxtor a turned off smartdrive bit disk access etc this same disk aborts norton speed disk nu up to times requesting ndd to be run when attempting to defrag drive at some peoples suggestion i reformatted my drive and reloaded dos win from scratch a few people found that installing on top of beta on top of caused a similar problem so i tried this drastic solution when the problem reoccurred i didn t have the brains not to load and dblespaced the drive i get arround the annoyance by copying my grp files to gro when i get the message i run file manager and copy the offeniding group files from gro ove rthe grp then i quit and restart windows if the group is an often used important one this really sucks but i m pretty sure that the problem is the drive especially with the nsd problem i will be going with out over of my memory after finals for to weeks while the guy i bought the disk and system from goes over it and either fixes it or replaces the drive i can t wait to have a system that will run consistently with all hte goodies 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
