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>When I purchased this machine used a while back it had a copy of Win95 >running on it. > >I ran the OS/2 Warp 3.0 fdisk and repatitioned the disk, I then formated >the partitions > >C ( 10 megs) IBM PC DOS 7.0 & Win 3.1 FAT >C (100 megs) OS/2 Warp 3.0 redbox HPFS >D (100 megs) no OS HPFS >E (320 megs) no OS HPFS > >I didn't think about it at the time but I ran format without any switches. > >Now the problem, from time to time a disk access will slow the system down >so much that at first I believed it was freezing up. However if I leave >it alone I will receive a message "a device attached to the system is not >functioning". I now have several files that I have renamed "a bad spot". >Any attempted to open or use those files will slow the system to sludge. > >Now when ever it happens I just rename the affected file. Any ideas? > >I'm wondering if there could have been something, like a hibernate memory >image that the format didn't touch and is just sitting there causing this >behavior? > Have you installed any fixpacks? >If no one has any better ideas I'll just back everything up and >repartition and format with the /l switch. > That probably would have been the best thing to do in the first place. I always format using the /l switch. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 27 Processes with 86 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 5h 21m 57s 156ms.