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Article #26809Re: Strange CHKDSK messages under DOS 3.1
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1988 14:34
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1988 14:34
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In article <1651@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
(michael regoli) writes:
>...chkdsk fixed the allocation error, but subsequent exec's of
>chkdsk still report the cross linked files.
CHKDSK does not automatically fix cross-linking of files, probably so
it won't cause loss of data. Cross-linked files occur when the same
disk cluster is found to be part of more than one file. There's not
much you can do to guarantee re-creating the original files. What you
could try doing is (a) copying each cross-linked file to a new file,
(b) deleting the cross-linked files, and finally (d) looking in the new
copies and recovering data if possible with a text editor.
Once you manually delete all the cross-linked files, they will be gone
and subsequent CHKDSKs ought not to find more errors.
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Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Strange CHKDSK messages under DOS 3.1 Message-ID: <2780@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 28 Apr 88 14:34:37 GMT References: <1651@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 17