From: "Tom St Denis" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: DJGPP kills my harddisk? Lines: 26 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 20:59:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.112.8.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news3.rdc1.on.home.com 994021149 24.112.8.23 (Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:59:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:59:09 PDT Organization: Excite AT Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Rodney mcconnell" wrote in message news:rBL%6.79354$662 DOT 341314 AT news1-hme0... > Hi, > > I've been using DJGPP v2.0 for a while, but recently it's started to kill my > harddisk. Every so often while I'm compiling even the smallest of programs > DJGPP hangs and when I reboot I get the not a dos disk message. Then I have > to use fdisk and format to get access to C: again! > Even if I run it in windows dos-shell, it still manages to kill my harddisk. > > Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do? I seriously doubt this is DJGPP's fault. Have you considered something in your comp is faulty? bad HD, ram, etc... I know about 3 months ago I was bitching at the folks here and it turned out that bad ram was the culprit [as an aside I have an 80$ 2ft fan blowing into my open comp case now... it cools the cpu and board by about 11c :-) ] Tom