It was a "Windows Explorer needs to close, send error report to Microsoft..." kind of crash. John Ferrell W8CCW "My Competition is not my enemy" http://DixieNC.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamas Rudnai" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [ot]:Ghost? > How did explorer crash? You mean crash (with popping up a window saying > ther > ewas an app error?), or after a short silence the whole desktop restarts > and > all explorer window disappears? Or just tell you that this and that file > coul dnot be accessed because of this and that? Did you try to copy the > 'My > Documents' or the 'Documents and Settings\username\' directory that > contains > many other things amongs 'My Documents'? > > Tamas > > > On 20/09/06, John Ferrell wrote: >> >> Ghost has arrived. >> The next hurtle is that in the preparation I decided to simply copy off >> to >> another drive my extensive My Documents folder. I kept an offline copy of >> a >> website that seems to have grown a series of folders which tend to crash >> windows explorer. The folders can be renamed, they currently reside as a >> 12 >> deep nest of "bad". Intuition is telling me that it would be a bad idea >> to >> try to clone this drive with the error in place. Command line or safe >> mode >> will not allow a delete either. Scan Disk and Chkdsk don't appear to >> exist >> with XP. >> >> I am considering giving Knoppix a try but I don't want to do that until I >> have a chunk of time to regenerate the system if needed. >> >> Have I missed something? >> >> John Ferrell W8CCW >> "My Competition is not my enemy" >> http://DixieNC.US >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John Ferrell" >> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." >> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:26 PM >> Subject: [ot]:Ghost? >> >> >> >I asked a while back and was not comfortable with the answers, I thought >> I >> >would try again.... >> > >> > My Windows XP Pro C: drive is getting a little tight on space. It is a >> 60G >> > drive with 8.3G free at the moment. I would like to Clone it to a >> > larger >> > drive. Regening the system always results in a few losses. >> > >> > Norton Ghost is supposed to do it as I read the advertising. >> > >> > Would anyone care to share any related experiences? >> > >> > John Ferrell W8CCW >> > "My Competition is not my enemy" >> > http://DixieNC.US >> > -- >> > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> > View/change your membership options at >> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > >> >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > > > > -- > unPIC -- The PIC Disassembler > http://unpic.sourceforge.net > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist