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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do ya when your FATs corrupt?
Message-ID: <268@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 19:15:44 GMT
References: <9765@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <22568@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <22568@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
|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.

How do you do that?  Does DOS itself have any use for the 2nd FAT?



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