dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (04/28/88)
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. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi