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In article <718622267wnr@rococo.demon.co.uk>
           Roger@rococo.demon.co.uk "Roger Cook" writes:

> I recently ran Norton Utilities on a machine which indicated that the File
>  Allocation 
> Tables were different. It then proceeded to correct this problem (in the
>  process 
> creating two massive files in the root directory, which cannot be deleted by
>  normal 
> methods). What happens when the two FATs are different - does it affect 
> performance? , which FAT does the PC actually use ? The machine had apparently 
> been running slowly beforehand, but otherwise was functioning OK.
> 
Look like a program has created/deleted/changed a file incorrectly and
has messed one of the FATs up.  If no further problems occur then it looks
like a one off (run nortons frequently).

> Also what's the best method of getting rid of these files that DOS won't
>  recognise. I 
> seem to remember that there's a shareware utility called "elim" that deals with
>  such 
> stubborn files.
> -- 
> Roger Cook
> 
I think that the files could have the read-only flag set.  Try

attrib -r -a -s -h <filename>

then deleteing it.

-- 
Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk