arachne-digest Friday, August 1 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2193
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:48:57 +0300 From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DELTREE C:\WINDOWS I assume at least the DLLs in use by various applications will fail to erase, but I am not sure. Pe data de Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:52 -0500 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: > In my experience I have always found that this command always works > flawlessly for curing one's Windows computer of all operating system > problems if one runs the command after starting up his computer and > selecting the most preferred option, i.e., to boot to DOS. > > I have never ywt tried running the command from within a so-called > "DOS-box", or from within a "DOS-window", if you prefer. > > Question: > > Will running this command also work just as well if one runs it from > within a "DOS-box"? Has anyone here ever tried doing that? Did you > get the desired results? > > Sam Heywood > -- > This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: > http://browser.arachne.cz/ > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:53:20 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DELTREE C:\WINDOWS Hello Sam, On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Will running this command also work just as well if one runs it from > within a "DOS-box"? Has anyone here ever tried doing that? Did you > get the desired results? I never tried (yes, I did DELTREE C:\WINDOWS a few times, when I needed to reinstall it from scratch, but always after booting from diskette). I think it won't work (won't complete its job) when executed from DOS window, because there are files that cannot be deleted, as they are in use (e.g., swapfile). Greetings, Michal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:35:29 +00 From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FORMATTING... Hi List, I made a new partition on my HD and before taking this into service one has to format it. The partition is 466Mb and after giving "FORMAT E:" the computer started by first repairing the clusters. I never had any computer do this. If I am rightly informed a cluster is 512 bytes or 0.512Kb The computer or HD is doing about 6000 clusters/hour so for 466Mb it will take about 150 hours = 6 days :-( :-( Does this sound familiar to any one??? Regards, Bastiaan Count is now 47,000 cluster in 7:30 hours. - - ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html ** Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer ** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:11:49 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FORMATTING... On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:35:29 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Hi List, > I made a new partition on my HD and before taking this into > service one has to format it. > The partition is 466Mb and after giving "FORMAT E:" > the computer started by first repairing the clusters. > I never had any computer do this. > If I am rightly informed a cluster is 512 bytes or 0.512Kb > The computer or HD is doing about 6000 clusters/hour so for 466Mb it > will take about 150 hours = 6 days :-( :-( > Does this sound familiar to any one??? > Regards, Bastiaan > Count is now 47,000 cluster in 7:30 hours. Something is very wrong. A 466MB partition shold not take more than 15 minutes to format. I just happen to have an empty partition of about that size that I can test this on. BRB WOW !!! Waa I ever wrong on THAT time estimate. - ---- formtest.bat --- chkdsk h:\>l:\ftest-1.txt format /a /u /x /v:formattest1 h: chkdsk h:\>l:\ftest-2.txt dir l:\>l:\ftest-3.txt copy l:\ftest-1.txt + l:\ftest-2.txt + l:\ftest-3.txt l:\ftest-4.txt _____________________ - ---- the resulting ftest-4.txt ---- WARNING: Redirecting CHKDSK output to a file on the same drive that is being checked, can result in CHKDSK reporting additional errors. Volume in drive H: does not have a label Volume Serial Number is 1BD5-142D 468,336,640 bytes total disk space. 468,336,640 bytes available on disk. 8,192 bytes in allocation unit. 57,170 total allocation units on disk. 57,170 available allocation units on disk. 655,360 total bytes of memory. 643,728 total bytes of free memory. 643,248 bytes in largest free memory block. Unable to locate h:\.WARNING: Redirecting CHKDSK output to a file on the same drive that is being checked, can result in CHKDSK reporting additional errors. Volume FORMATTEST1 created Jul-30-2003 20:08 Volume Serial Number is 1BDB-3277 468,336,640 bytes total disk space. 468,336,640 bytes available on disk. 8,192 bytes in allocation unit. 57,170 total allocation units on disk. 57,170 available allocation units on disk. 655,360 total bytes of memory. 643,728 total bytes of free memory. 643,248 bytes in largest free memory block. Unable to locate h:\. Volume in drive L is MS-RAMDRIVE Directory of L:\ COMMAND COM 55077 2-27-97 7:01a TEMP <DIR> 7-30-03 7:19p ARACHNE <DIR> 7-30-03 7:19p FORMTEST BAT 183 7-30-03 8:06p FTEST-1 TXT 598 7-30-03 8:06p FTEST-2 TXT 602 7-30-03 8:08p FTEST-3 TXT 0 7-30-03 8:08p 7 File(s) 60601344 bytes free ___________________________________ As you can see.... 2 minutes was all it took. - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:33:10 +00 From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FORMATTING... Hi Glenn, Yes, a few minutes was what I expected for the formatting of 467Mb. But I never saw 'FORMAT' saying that is was going to repair the clusters first... not stating what was actually going to be repared and not how long that would take. Perhaps this has something to do with: "write protect error writing fixed disk" as stated by FDISK when I made the partition. Did repairing the clusters meant 'removing the write protection'? I wonder. Anyway I started the formatting and 7.5 hours later 47,000 clusters were repaired and I went to bed. This morning the partition was ready and formatted. So after all it did not take 6 days but between 7.5 and 16 hours. ***************************** A few hours later... I tried to use the formatted partition and could write just aprox 1Mb to the new partition... disk full, 0 bites left :-(( The command "FORMAT E: /s" was given and format is repairing the clusters again. I hope the computer is ready in the morning... now I am going to bed. I do not realy need this harddisk but this is intruiging, isn't it? ************************************************** Am I right that 467Mb contains aprox. 911.250 clusters? So we have to conclude that not all the clusters have to be repaired... I still have to format a 6Gb HD... 72 days?? Regards, Bastiaan BTW: computer is a pentium II @ 400MHz. - - ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html ** Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer ** ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2193 ******************************
