Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg
From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do ya when your FATs corrupt?
Summary: There are TWO copies of FAT
Message-ID: <22568@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Feb 88 17:59:50 GMT
References: <9765@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <9765@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, todd@ucla-cs.UUCP 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?
> 
> --todd booth  UUCP    {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!todd   / 213 825-1933


There are two copies of FAT.  Run a binary compare on them. The probability
of both being identically corrupted is fairly low.

Forrest Gehrke