Problems with corrupt filenames

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From: Roger Stone
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00

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A friend has just installed a second hard drive in his pc. It's set up
as the master on the second controller with his original as master on
the first. He has a cd-rom controlled through his sound card.

After putting the ide cable the wrong way round & not getting the pc to
boot he swapped it around.

The pc then started to boot into Windows95 but stopped part way through.

Booting from floppy shows some file & directory names containing non-
standard characters.

Is this problem easily fixable or is the best way to just reformat &
reinstall ?

Sorry but this is all the info I've got and I'm planning on visiting
this evening.

TIA !

-- 
Cheers

Roger Stone

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