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Article #6791Re: chkdsk does not fix allocation errors (update)
From: Jamie Kirk
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
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In <3lg20q$oci@server.icon-stl.net> ssnyder@icon-stl.net (Steve Snyder) writes: > >In <3ld7vp$kb4@infonaut.com>, wagstaff@famties.com writes: >[snip] >>There are a number of 'bugs' in CHKDSK for OS/2. When I was beta testing Partition >>Magic, I heard of all that the authors had found - that was why they built a >>reliable "DISK CHECK" into Partition Magic > >I'd be interested in hearing what those CHKDSK bugs are. Do you still have >the list? > I don't know if you want to hear this or not, but I ran into a little problem with chkdsk the other day. I ran it on my drive c and it came up with errors. So, I checked the fix errors box and it proceeded to trash my c drive. I couldn't access it after that, so I had to boot dos, run scandisk, correct all 100+ errors, converting them to files and then proceeded to delete them all. That's the LAST time I run chkdsk! Just my $.02. -- Nitnoid
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,233c8954941128a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,233c8954941128a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,233c8954941128a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public From: Nitnoid@ix.netcom.com (Jamie Kirk) Subject: Re: chkdsk does not fix allocation errors (update) Date: 1995/04/01 Message-ID: <3liocl$5mn@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 100640197 distribution: world references: <796542189snx@eden.apana.org.au> <3ld7vp$kb4@infonaut.com> <3lg20q$oci@server.icon-stl.net> organization: Netcom newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.misc