Peter Knapper wrote to Eddy Thilleman on 12-10-1999

PK> That power failures are MONTHS apart is irrelevant, there 
PK> are other reasons why the system fails to shut down 
PK> correctly. Regardless of the reason for it, if the system 
PK> is NOT shut down "normally", then the HPFS partition ROOT 
PK> directory entry cannot be found upon restart!

When you put it that way, it caught my eye.  So Murphy lives at you
house now?

I would be curious to see what DFSEE reported about that partition
after a dirty shutdown (boot to another partition/floppy, no chkdsk of
course but DFSEE will take care of the dirty bit).  My initial thoughts
all run to a hardware problem with the disk, right in the superblock
sector, of course... Tell Murph hello as he's a regular here.
 
Will Honea 
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