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From: msdos1@funet.fi (Petri Hartoma - Tut)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 4dos misfeature?
Message-ID: <MSDOS1.91Mar8124545@nic.funet.fi>
Date: 8 Mar 91 11:45:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Sender: msdos1@nic.funet.fi (Petri Hartoma - Tut)
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network NIC
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In-Reply-To: stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 6 Mar 91 19:28:24 GMT

In article <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu> stevew@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Steven L Wootton) writes:
>   which I thought would over-write the old mstibm with a new mstibm.  Didn't
>   work out that way.  The directory listing was lost entirely to 4dos, such
>   that every directory on my disk became c:\misc\*(&^%&%# with no files.

Ok, you've got a bunch of replies before that but have you checked
(with CHKDSK /F) that FAT of your hard disk is still alright? It seems
that there's something wrong with it. Maybe cross-linked clusters or
something like that. I've (as many others) tried same kind of
operations with 4DOS - and without any troubles.

Better luck!

&& Petri