Re: potential to trash hard disk

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From: leo
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article <814702089snz@rose.demon.co.uk>
           Ross@rose.demon.co.uk "Ross Cochrane" writes:

> I have been told under no circumstances to use chkdsk/f on this disk as
> it will trash it.  Can anyone tell me the reason for this?  Is it
> perhaps because it uses a different block size to other disks, or what.
> It's a bit of a pain to say the least as in order to sort out lost
> chains I have to use Norton which seems to take forever.  Mainly though
> I'm just curious as a point of academic interest.

I don't know of any reason why this should be a problem - what version
of DOS are you running (ie do you have scandisk?)


-- 
leo

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