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From: gary@hpbbrd.HP.COM (Gary Tuosto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Non-DOS drive error?
Message-ID: <66510003@hpbbrd.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 90 06:25:52 GMT
References: <4035@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division
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>> / hpbbrd:comp.sys.ibm.pc / banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Wailin' Through The Nets) /  2:16 pm  Jun  3, 1990 /
>> My zenith PC has just developed an odd symptom.  During some disk operations,
>> we had a power flicker -- when the system was powered back, everything seemed
>> to be fine until I tried to run pctool to undelete a file.  "Error in FAT".
>> I ran chkdsk, which responded with "Probable non-DOS disk.  Continue?".
>> 
>> My drive SEEMS to be fine.  It accesses, it writes, everything is normal.
>> When I tell chkdsk to continue it reports the disk as being fine.  I ran
>> Nortons Disk Doctor -- it reported that the FATs differed (2 on my drive)
>> and corrected that.
>> 
>> But chkdsk still claims that I have a "Non-DOS disk" even though eveything
>> runs fine.  I am concerned -- does anyone have any advice?
>> 
>> banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
>> ----------

Are you sure that NDD actually corrected the FAT? I had the same problem with
the "Probable non-DOS disk. Continue?" message and NDD corrected it.

Gary