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From: schultzd@kira.uucp (David Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FAT troubles
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Date: 19 Nov 90 22:00:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: sagemma@eos.ncsu.edu's message of 19 Nov 90 16:46:58 GMT

A while back (when I first replaced an aging Compaq with an even older
ST), I had the same type of problem.  The fix was stumbled onto
accidentally, may be extremely unrliable (ie. it might not work for
you), and it SAVED MY BUTT.

What I did was put the disk through the VKILLER program (PD on
atari.archive).  When I "killed" the non-existing virus.  My FATs were
all fixed up.  (There is more than one copy of the FAT.  VKILLER
recontructs the FATS from the copies.)

Good Luck,
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