Re: Recovering lost clusters quickly

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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00

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mcr@holly.demon.co.uk (Mark Rogers) writes:

> It's quite possible that all the extra file integrity checks are
> necessary to ensure that the lost clusters are recovered correctly, in
> which case I'll have to accept the solutions I already have.  But I'm
> not convinced that this is the case.

The checks are necessary.  The only way to tell if a cluster is "lost"
is to see if any file on the disk has claimed it.

I have found that CHKDSK is the fastest of any of the disk integrity
checkers, at least on my 386.  "ECHO N | CHKDSK/F" should do what you
want.

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