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From: broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Symbolic link under MS-DOS ??!!??
Message-ID: <1919@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 09:58:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 09:58:48 1985
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Reply-To: broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Actually, you don't need a disk editor; you can do it with DEBUG.
It's a little tedious, however; since it's a directory, you can't simply
edit it.  Assuming the offending directory is under root, you can find
its entry in the root directory by just prowling through the first few
sectors of the disk, then patch the necessary bytes and write the root
directory sectors out again.  In particular, you can change it from a
directory to an ordinary file, so you can erase it.

The reason chkdsk hangs is that it recursively walks the directory
hierarchy, and since that hierarchy now contains itself, chkdsk never
terminates.

I would stronly sugest backing up the disk before attempting to edit the
directory using DEBUG, especially if you have little or no previous
experience in that area.  Of course, if you're going to back it all up
anyway, why not just reformat and restore everything but the bad directory
entry?

I can't predict how BACKUP will respond to your funny directory; the
simplest work-around is to backup everything *but* that directory, so that
it's never stored on the backup diskettes (also makes the restore a lot
easier).

Best of luck!
					--Bernie Roehl
 
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