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I have a newly made ARCAOS system.

My previous system was ECS22 beta, presumably using version 913 (2008) and no ill symptoms.

I dont know which release is part of ARCAOS but I found that obeying a CMD file from a FAT32 formatted disk could cause the contents that file to vanish (not the file iteslf). There appeared to be other corruption associated with that problem.

Not unreasonably LEwis Rosenthal recommended that I try R249, which I installed using the WPI version.

The above problem did not occur. However running a DOS in a full screen window (which I need to do for other reasons) and obeying a BAT command (calling word perfect) all seemed well until I exited word perfect when the systen froze.

On the forced reboot the partition showed lots of errors to the extent that it said "use SCANDISC under Windows".

Reverting to the "stable release" 913 these problems do not occur.

I arranged for full backup of the partitions that are vulnerable and tried again, with very similar results so the effect is repeatable.

I dont know what diagnostics would help.

Since experiencing the stuck state (as I thought on ArcaOS) I have experimented with both CS and ARCAOS. The stuck states occur on both systems in all releases later than 913.

I now have a file on a FAT32 formatted volume that causes a stuck state on either system when attempting to delete it (DEL comand) in a DOS window. This effect is (so far) 100% consistent and oersisted despite remaking the volume by copying the files and directories.

Please let me know what diagnostic information would be useful.

This is with a build of CS 176 without xfat. I run pmchkdsk on the drives and it opens and indicates it is checking. Leaving open for 5 plus minutes yields no change. Chkdsk from command line completes checks in 10-30 seconds.