Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
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From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Subject: Re: Clusters disappear/reappear - (UPDATE !!)
Message-ID: <89Nov6.022738est.18444@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
References: <89Nov5.213213est.18444@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 89 02:27:31 EST

I've reformatted my HD, and restored the files with the following
results:

Intuition proved correct, reformatting didn't solve my problem, in fact,
it made it worse.  Now Norton's 'nu' and chkdsk both consistently report
that clusters 2-651 are not allocated.  However, I know without a doubt
that files live in that area, the terminal program I'm using right now
lives in that area!  Listings of the two directories in that area show
that all the files are there, and Norton's 'dt' (disk test) report that
all is well.  Conclusion, some programs can read the FAT for that area of
the disk and others cannot.  This led one of my cohorts to conclude that
I have a 'weak' sector in my FAT area, and I'm inclined to agree.  The
obvious solution would be to reformat the disk with a better formatting
program than the one provided with DOS - it took less than two minutes
for format.com to format each of my two twenty meg partitions, this
doesn't bode well for its thoroughness in my eyes.

I need suggestions for a VERY GOOD formatting program.

Thanks for your replies, Davin

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