Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:13:31 +0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FUBAR 2 - aliens (or suspend-to-disk) trashed my data

For the first time since HDD replacement, my L110 battery ran low enough to
invoke an automatic suspend-to-disk (which appeared to complete normally).

When I re-booted on mains power, Win'98 immediately reported HDD problems
and ran ScanDisk. Once this was completed, a stack of my data had been
trashed. The HDD is fairly full but defragged regularly; the lost data was
all recent stuff. ScanDisk was run in 'thorough' mode prior to the last
defrag and reported no errors.

I've sorted out the resulting mess and have made sure to avoid any further
suspend-to-disk attempts - no problems since. I used suspend-to-disk a lot
on this machine before the HDD was replaced - no problems then, either.

My questions are:

- 1 -
Is this possibly/probably a result of TeleDynamics (who replaced the HDD
under warranty) not setting up the new HDD correctly?

- 2 -
How can I check that the HDD/suspend-to-disk 'space' is - or is not - set up
correctly? FWIW the "properties" for C: reports 4,318,003,200 bytes / 4.02GB

- 3 -
How can I "switch off" all possibilities of suspend-to-disk?

1kTIA...  Steve





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