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From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do ya when your FATs corrupt?
Message-ID: <4534@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 88 15:18:20 GMT
References: <9765@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <9765@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth) writes:
>I use the Norton utilities to save a copy of my FAT table, but how do I
>know if the FAT was good to start with?

Most of the time a FAT failure will be catastrophic.  You will get
death messages from DOS.  You also can check for it's condition
by using Norton DT,  it will check your FAT area.


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