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From: n8742883@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: FAT troubles
Keywords: NeoDesk, FAT, trouble
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.014528.16629@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 01:45:28 GMT
Reply-To: n8742883@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Perry Pederson)
Organization: Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
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	Today I was working with unarcing some files while using
NeoDesk 3.0 as my desktop.  I put a new disk in the drive and pressed
the ESCape key to tell NeoDesk to read the new disk info and display
the directory.  The window refreshed itself with the same info-- for
some reason, the FAT had been written from the disk that was just in
the computer to the new disk I just inserted!!

	While the directories of the two disks look identical, the
disk which had its FAT rewritten will not execute / print the files on
the disk as the files are nonexistant on the disk.  A disk editor
showed me that the files do exist on the drive, but the FAT has been
rewritten to match the old disk.

	I had run several programs which I had just unarced.  Could
the symptoms be from a virus that was picked up off of one of those,
or does NeoDesk 3.0 have (gulp!) a bug hiding in it?  I've never had
this problem before.

	My system is an Atari 1040STf, 1 meg, 1 internal drive.  The
window I was trying to reread was the B: window.

	Any suggestions on what could have happened would be appreciated.


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