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From: f18@clark.edu (Torry V Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Cross Linked Clusters?
Keywords: chkdsk, cross linked clusters
Message-ID: <1991May23.173041.20214@clark.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 17:30:41 GMT
References: <49299@ut-emx.uucp>
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Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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In article <49299@ut-emx.uucp> gcoen@emx.utexas.edu (Gary A. Coen) writes:
>Running Windows 3.0 on an IBM PS2 Model 80 (6Mb RAM, 44.5Mb FD, PCDOS 3.3),
>when invoking the CHKDSK function with the /F parameter set, I get the fol-
>lowing behavior:
>
>	CHKDSK /F
>
>	Volume is ...
>	File A is cross linked on cluster n.
>	File B is cross linked on cluster n.
>
>I have not been able to find documentation of this in my DOS manual.  Is it
>bad?  Does anyone *know* what it means?  Does anyone *know* why it is happen-
>ing?
>
>--Gary Coen

It is well known that 'CHKDSK /F' doesn't work properly under Windows 3.0
because of a bug in Windows 3.0 that interferes with the does shell.