I had to slipstream an XP installation to get the proper drivers for the
hardware which kept XP from installing, (I didn't have any problem with
W2K but that's another story). When I built the slipstream installation
I included SP3. The failure is interesting. A subset of directories,
usually completes with no problems, but occasionally hangs requiring a
reboot. An entire drive almost always hangs before completion, and
searching the entire computer, hangs every single time. The first thing
to happen is the actual search Window will stop responding, but any
other open folder window responds until I try to do anything useful then
that one stops responding. Finally the desktop freezes, (it reminds me
of software development back in the Win 2.0/3.x days when you could tell
how you'd trashed the interrupt table based on how he UI failed).
However any dos console open continues to work properly, any non
Microsoft software works until it attempts disk access, (I sent my
previous message from the machine after it had frozen, and I had an
XXCopy backup run to successful conclusion). The machine responds to
the three finger salute and opens the task manager to allow a more or
less controlled shutdown.
On 4/29/2013 1:46 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, P.J. Alling wrote:
I've tried to get an answer about this on a number of fora but so
far nothing helpful has come my way. I finally upgraded my desktop
to WinXP. I was getting tired of having to Hack Win2K to get new
software and hardware to work properly so when I had my last primary
hard drive failure I decided to join the first decade of the 21st
century, but I've run into a problem. Most every time I attempt to
search my system for a file the OS locks up. I have an insane
amount of storage for this box, 5TB in internal and external drives
but then I had an insane amount of storage on the Win2K
installantion as well, and that didn't hang up on a search.
First stupid question: do you have all the patches for WinXP? If no,
fix that first.
Second stupid question: did you upgrade or do a clean install? If
upgrade, maybe consider backing up and starting from scratch.
Also, what happens if you search just a subset of your data?
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