posted March 07, 2004 12:43 PM         

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I am glad that everything worked out.

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posted March 07, 2004 11:30 AM         

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I have no problem running checkdisk.exe; I use it periodically. Since it involved floppy files xfer, I didn't think to look at my HD. Thanks. I keep a Gremlin Attack Log, and recently something vewy scwewy, wabbit, occured: my floppy drive disappeared from My Computer. Chagrined, I was delighted when it just as magically reappeared...and utterly horrified when my HARD DRIVE then vanished! Relieved was I when I opened up my CPU and found a loose connection (how the heck did THAT happen?)! My Gremlin Attack Log helps troubleshooters help me, and when I find out how to fix an unusual problem, I record the method therein.

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posted February 22, 2004 05:25 PM         

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Its could be a combination of corrupted data on the disk, the disk my be old. Does that happen often? What you might want to do is run a chkdsk on the disk. This will scan the disk for any logical errors on the disk and attempt to fix them. Now to run that I believe you click my computer, go to your floppily drive, and then right click it and then go to properties and go to tools and look for disk scanning. If you can run it that way then let me know. Some errors or most of them I should say are not going to be a dead give away. I sort of had an idea what the error meant, by looking at the word Redundancy and that gave me sort of a clue, some errors have key words that I look for and then some others I know off the top of my head. However there are sometimes I have others I have no clue as to what they mean. But that is okay I don’t think everyone knows what every error message means (unless you’re the programmer of that program) but that’s okay as long as you can use a search engine and search the Internet a little then you can most of the time find what that error message mean.

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posted February 22, 2004 03:13 PM         

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Sometimes, when I am attempting to move or copy a file from floppy to hard disk, the operation fails, resulting in an error message something like, "Cannot copy file(s)-Error Redundancy Check." What can cause this, and does that message mean what I think it does, that the file has been corrupted somehow? I don't know/suspect the reason behind the few other times, but this time, after the operation failed, I decided to delete some sensitive data. During the secure deletion I noted that the disk had a very, very long history; no less than 222 files and revisions had been written to the disk during its life. Good thing I had the file backed up on CD-RW. Might I be correct in suspecting that the disk was so old that it could no longer accurately record/respond to data, that it's astonishing that it held out as long as it did? The main question was, "What exactly is an Error Redundancy Check; what is that message telling me?" ...And why do you have to be a darned technician to uderstand most Windows error messages? SOME of them are user-friendly, helpfully detailing possible causes and solutions, but many of them leave one feeling more in the dark than before one was blessed with such "illumination!"

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