Flashes of Panic

The server is crashing, repeatedly, this afternoon. I thought, for a while, that I knew what was bringing it down, but it turns out I was wrong. (I’m working with a different theory, now, but I could be wrong about that one, too.)

This would be a relatively minor irritant except that the system, like many, insists on running chkdisk on startup whenever it was not properly shut down. It’s a pretty lightweight processor and a big disk, so it takes anywhere from fifteen to twenty minutes to check the disk. For that time, the whole office is disconnected from the ‘net. I’d far rather it just bring the system up, and then check the disk, but I don’t know how to manage that.

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