Re: Network Drive Issue

This sounds like a hard drive problem. Your drive probably has one or
more marginal sectors which take many retries to read or possibly fail
altogether.

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"Hector Santos" <nospamhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Well, it just happen again.
>
> Been using the machine without a problem the last few days since the
> last time I posted.
>
> I started VS 6.0 to load a project and it got struck during or towards
> the end of the "loading workspace."
>
> Within 4-5 minutes, "something" timed out and everything was back to
> normal.
>
> But during the time, I tried the following:
>
> Starting PROCEXP.EXE. It was stuck too. Didn't appear until
> "something" timed out.
>
> Open DOS box and tried to switch drives:
>
> CD S:
>
> Stuck too.
>
> Within 1 minute, I disabled the LAN connection which was "stuck" too. It
> didn't close.
>
> At some point the DOS window showed the S: prompt where I typed DIR
>
> S:> DIR
>
> Stuck too.
>
> At some point the DOS window showed:
>
> S:> DIR
> The specified network name is no longer available.
>
> Within 4-5 minutes, "something" timed out and:
>
> - MSDEV.EXE finished loading,
> - The LAN Trayicon disapppeared,
> - ProcExp.exe Window appeared,
> - Retyped the DOS DIR command and it worked.
>
> The only thing I noticed in PROCEXP MSDEV Threads/Stacks that was
> "network" or communicatations related was RPCRT4.DLL and a OLE*.DLL
> which I didn't catch because it disappears while I was looking at the
> window.
>
> I closed and reopened the VS 6.0 project a few times and it FLEW and
> loaded in seconds. Didn't see the OLE*.DLL file again.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is that its related to the VS 2005
> Machine Debugger that I think replaced the VS 6.0 machine debugger.
> I've been meaning to get rid of this or switch it back.
>
> I hate to uninstall VS 2005 to see if will solve this problem. What
> bugs me is that its intermittent, which makes me wonder if MS installed
> some daily or 48 hour timer or something to go out into the internet.
>
> ---
> Hector
>
> "Eugene Gershnik" <gershnik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> > >> Hector Santos wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I am posting here because I would like to know what drivers are
> > >> involved when it comes to a MAPPED drive. In my NDIR.CPP program, I
> > >> am calling GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() to get drive information.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Why not pause your NDIR.exe in the debugger while it hangs and see
> > > the stack for clues?
> >
> > Actually the newer Process Explorer versions make it even simpler. See
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005_08_01_archive.html for a nice
> > demonstration of using it to investigate process hang.
>

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