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From: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: cross linked file problems... HELP!
Keywords: help crosslink chkdsk
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Date: 10 Jun 90 21:56:05 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.160056.11952@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
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In article <1990Jun1.160056.11952@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sekoppenhoef@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Shawn E. Koppenhoefer) writes:
>When I run CHKDSK /F I get the following report:
>
. . .   Report of several crosslinked files . . .

This means that the files ALL have the cluster in question
allocated to them.  What you have to do is get down to only
one file having the cluster allocated.  Usually this means
deleting all but one of the files in question and then
running CHKDSK /F again.

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