Re: XY4 can not find drive

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "Yo Intl. YK"  Sun, 12 May 2002
03:03:58 +0900

> It beeps, and "File not found" appears for a split second. Is
> that what you mean?

I'm trying to figure out what *you* mean.

1) Your subject says "cannot find drive", but your example deals
with a specific directory, DIR D:\X\*.*. Does the error happen with
other directories on drive D:, or just \X?

2) Can you PLEASE, immediately after the error occurs, issue the
command VA/NV $ER and report back to us what NUMBER the command
returns? Is it 392 or some other value?

3) Now try this: Command D WA=72. Again issue the DIR command that
causes the error. Pay close attention to the error message(s) that
follow the command. Is there more than one error message? If so,
quote them all to us, in succession. Remember to return your WAit
value to 0 or whatever value you use.

4) What happens with variants of the DIR command:

DIR/NA
DIR/FI
DIR/PA
DIR/NA/FI
DIR/NA/PA
DIR/SU
DIR D:\X+

5) What happens if you issue a dir command via DOS:

DOS/NV/Z /C D:\X
DOS/NV/Z /K D:\X

6) When was the last time you ran CHKDSK or SCANDISK on drive D:?
This error could be a sign of incipient disk failure; for most
people, a very "big deal".

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Carl Distefano
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