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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic link under MS-DOS ??!!??
Message-ID: <1081@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 13:03:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 13:03:02 1985
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> You have created a directory entry containing just an 8 byte name, 3 byte
> extension, 1 byte attribute (10H) and all the rest of the fields are zeros.
> Zero in bytes 26-27 (the starting cluster of a file/directory) indicates
> the root, as it does in directory entries . and .. (dot & dotdot).
> 
> I know of no way to remove this entry without a disk editor or
>   GASP!! reformatting.
 DEBUG will let you do this (access blocks on the disk)
 e.g.
 l 0 100,2,5
loads 5 sectors starting at sector 2 from drive 0 (a:) to location
100 (all numbers are hex). the w command writes them back out.  These
are physical device sectors (i.e. not necessarily 512 bytes).  I      
repaired my root (after doing a RECOVER which supposedly recovers bad
blocks but which actuall converted all my files *and* directories to
simple files of the form FILEnnnn.CHK until root dir ran out of space)
and while it was tedious it works.