Re: Can't read last cluster on drive?

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From: David Harley
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:00

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Jeremy Brooks (jem@datasecurity.co.uk) wrote:

[stuff with big numbers snipped ;-)]

: Could it be that this disk has this problem and the disk has become full and
: scandisk or DOS is trying to r/w these non-existent clusters (i.e. the last
: or penultimate cylinder).

I haven't been seeing this in a disk full situation, though: what
appears to happen is that an often-trivial system crash forces a scandisk 
run on restart, as you'd expect, and the user lets scandisk do its famous
impersonation of a physical check on the disk, whereupon the message 
pops up and they call for help. Which seems more or less consistent with 
your analysis, nonetheless. FWIW, I'm seeing it on brand new systems 
with copious disk space.

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David Harley
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