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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problem with the Norton Disk Doctor
Message-ID: <282.2450F9A2@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 22 Apr 89 21:22:45 GMT
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Rather recently, I decided to stop running MINIX on my hard disk and format
that partition for DOS.  Because I didn't want to have to back up and
then restore the contents of my other partition, which would have taken
well over 2 hours, I decided to leave the partition structure the way
it was (17MB C:, 3.9MB D:), and just reformat the second partition
for DOS.  So, I twiddled the Partition Assignment Bit in IO.SYS (using
Zenith's CONFIGUR utility) to Manual, and then ran ASGNPART to assign
Partition 2 to drive D:.  (I'm running Zenith MS-DOS v3.1.)  Then, I
used FORMAT.COM to format drive D:.  So far, so good.  I can now use
drive D:, and everything else works fine.  However, when I start up
NDD, it pops up the "Analyzing Partition Table..." message, takes
it down (as normal), and then crashes so hard that even the three-finger
salute doesn't work.  I have to cycle the power to regain control of
my machine.  The only drivers I have in my CONFIG.SYS are those for
a ramdisk, and DoubleDOS's ANSI.SYS replacement (DBLDANSI.SYS).  When
I tried rebooting without a CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT (i.e., without
assigning partition 2 to drive D:), NDD didn't crash.  It put a
D> prompt at about line 1, column 50.  For some reason, DOS then thought
that there were NO files on ANY disks.  When I typed DIR, I just
got a "File not found" message.  Whenever I tried any external command,
it just said "Bad command or file name", without even accessing the
disk.  I have to reboot (soft) to get things back to normal.

I'm getting desperate here.  I usually run NDD's full surface check
every week, to make sure the disk is okay, and I can't do that now.
I haven't been able to check drive D: at all, and that concerns me:
It has a bad cluster on it, and I'd like to lock it out before it starts
to corrupt files.
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Marc Unangst
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