Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: CHKDSK: Probable Non-DOS disk, Continue? (Y/N) Message-ID: Date: 23 Sep 89 14:58:54 GMT References: <26474@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 23 Sep 89 03:39:56 GMT In article <26474@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman) writes: When I run chkdsk on my C:, DOS 3.30, I get the question shown above. It started happening recently. What has changed? The first word of your FAT is no longer recognizable by DOS. Should I worry? Probably. Quite possibly your FAT is trashed, and so some of your files are lost. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.