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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: "Probable non-DOS disk" ??
Message-ID: <24048@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 89 01:10:45 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Hi, everybody --- I'm looking for some words of wisdom about CHKDSK and
its error messages.  Something has happened to my harddisk over the last
week or so, so that when I run CHKDSK I get the "Probable non-DOS disk"
message.  When I tell it to continue anyway, it eventually produces a
report that looks essentially like what I expect (31M total, 49152 in 2
hidden files, 4M free space, etc.).  This happens even with a minimal
bootup that does nothing fancy --- no device drivers, no drive join or
substitution, no tsrs, nothing like that.

Further info --- Norton DiskTest says it can read the FAT, system area,
and all files, on a sector-by-sector basis with no errors.

Can anybody tell me what triggers this message?  Especially, what
triggers it and then comes up with a clean report?

Thanx for any advice,
--
Bob Montante (bobmon@cs.indiana.edu) |  "Oh dear, I think you'll find
Computer Science Department	     |   reality's on the blink again."
Indiana University, Bloomington IN   |     - Marvin The Paranoid Android