re why i m not using dos anymore in article apr ugle unit no eliza tigern elisabeth bull writes from eliza tigern elisabeth bull subject re why i m not using dos anymore date wed apr gmt mark woodruff cda ucf vm bitnet wrote this morning at am while i was working on my research paper i had to reboot a hung dos program that did no disk i o from within windows when my machine finished rebooting i found my windows directory and about two thirds of my other directories were irreversibly corrupted stuff deleted this sounds like what happened to my hd a month ago my hd was stacked with stacker v i run dos suddenly everything hung up and most of the hd got corrupted directories changed into unreadable files with funny names in other words it is probably just the doubledisk part of dos that is troublesome i now use stacker v and so far i have had no trouble does this need to have anything to do with disk compression i have experienced the same thing a couple of times myself but without any disk compression stuff installed for example guess what happened when norton speeddisk once crashed during defragmenting bjorn bjorn myrland bjorn myrland sipaa sintef no sintef safety and reliability n trondheim norway sintef the foundation for scientific and industrial research at the norwegian institute of technology
