Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

 Chuck wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > > which makes me think that maybe its the writing to stdout that's 
> > > failing.
> > At this point I'd suggest SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
> Haven't tried spinrite yet but I did do a "thorough" check of the 
> drive using Tuneup Utilities. That's the one that requires exclusive 
> access to the disk, reboots, and runs as the o/s starts to come up. It 
> identifies and fixes bad sectors. It found nothing wrong with the HD.
I cannot speak for "Tuneup Utilities" however I've heard that SpinRite 
is better than most out there.
> As stated before, I really do *not* believe this is a HD getting ready 
> to fail. If it were I would expect problems in Windows and Cygwin, not 
> just Cygwin.
And I find it as hard to believe that for some odd reason Cygwin would 
behave this way just for you.
> I could be wrong but my suspicion is that Daemon tools' uninstaller 
> left something behind. Something that hooks into the filesystem api. I 
> remember when installing it that it had to reboot *before* installing 
> itself and I think it was adding some sort of virtual device driver or 
> a hook into the Windows filesystem API. After rebooting, it installed 
> itself. I am highly suspicious that whatever it installed during that 
> first reboot is still hanging around and causing problems for cygwin.
I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file 
system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit!
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