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From: gejohann@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Gene Edward Johannsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: FAT problems
Message-ID: <1989Oct15.220849.21435@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 22:08:49 GMT
Reply-To: gejohann@uokmax.UUCP (Gene Edward Johannsen)
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Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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I've got problems.  Recently my FAT has become _slightly_ messed up.  It's
not because of a virus or anything. Its just one of those things that happen
now and then.  The error causes CHKDSK to think that my C: drive is not a DOS
disk and the Norton Utilities doesn't think my C: drive is a hard disk, except
for the DISK TEST program that doesn't see anything wrong at all.

Anyway, I know that there are two copies of the FAT on my disk and everything
works okay using the backup, I would still like to fix my FAT--without
reformatting if possible. 

The closest thing I get to an actual error message occurs when I attempt to 
run DOG (a disk organizer program) that returns INVALID CLUSTER when it
tries to read the FAT.

All help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Gene