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Subject: Re: S5 and Defrag in Windows 2000 Bug

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 07:00:40 03/09/01

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On March 09, 2001 at 09:19:25, Laurence Chen wrote:

>I'm not sure if I'm the only one who is experiencing this problem with S5.  It
>stopped loading the engine after I defragged my hard drive.  I'm running W2K,
>and S5 was working until I defragged my hard drive, it's an NTFS partition.
>After the defragmentation, S5 won't load any chess engines at all.  I had to
>fdisk, format the hard drive, re-install the OS, and S5, and S5 started to work
>again.  Is anyone also having this similar problem?
>Regards,
>
>Laurence

As I recall, there's something that CAN go all funky with Windows ME after you
defrag, and it won't boot back into Windows after that, but fortuanatly, I
didn't have the problem.

Have you met MS's Knowlage Base yet?
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?ln=en-us

It's a rather annoying place.

Pete



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