>>Hi
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>>We are using Visual FoxPro 6 sp4 on Windows 2000 and it keeps corrupting our forms when we save them or the forms we are working get corrupted when we close down. Has anybody else had this problem or know of a solution. We have sp1 on Windows 2000
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>This is a known issue with Win2K and VFP and the status of the Write Cache Enabled flag in Device Manager involving ATA/IDE disk drives - you need to disable the cache to prevent the problem, but Win2K reenables it on it's own each time it resets the system, so that going into the System Control Panel applet or the registry and resetting the affected flag doesn't 'take' on a permanent basis. It also impacts the drive's performance noticably, which is probably why the OS resets the status during the system startup.

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If this is the cause of the problem, is it going to be VFP-specific or are other apps likely to be affected?

Dell, for one, seems quite happy to sell W2K SP1 workgroup servers with EIDE hard drives.