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From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Non-DOS drive error?
Message-ID: <3177@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 14:09:47 GMT
References: <3111@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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>>> I ran chkdsk, which responded with "Probable non-DOS disk.  Continue?".
>> 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.
>
>This seems to be a popular problem.  What has happened is something has
>altered your FAT improperly.  The media descriptor byte, which should be F8
>hex for hard disks, has been changed to something else.  Grab a FAT editor,
>such as the one in Norton Utilities, and change the FIRST byte of the FAT to
>hex F8.  That should do it.

Perhaps a little TOO popular ?  Same thing occured on my system the other night.
Neither FLU-SHOT+ nor SCANV63 found anything suspicious though..  I just applied
this same fix and all is normal.. if it recurr's I'm going hunting, though..
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