cmaag@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Christopher N Maag) (10/05/87)
Hello --
I have a problem that I've never heard of. Last night I was cleaning up
my hard disk, and I thought that I would unfragment the harddrive. So, I
run chkdsk as usual, everything is okay. I then run the unfragment program,
and it stops about about 1/8th of the way through, with some file error.
I then abort the program, and run chkdsk. It says "Probable non-DOS disk,
continue (y/n)". I continue, and there are a couple of cross-linked files,
and some files get truncated. Re-run chkdsk, and get the ominous message
again. Run a disk diagnostic program, and don't get any errors. There
was no physical trauma to the hard drive during the time I was using
the system. As far as I can tell, the drive is completely okay -- no data
errors, all programs tested work just fine. One thing I did notice is
that data access times may be slowed down a little, but that is just
speculation.
Other than re-formatting, does anyone have any ideas as to what I could
do? All the other times I have seen the "probable non-DOS..." error,
on other hard disks, there has been serious FAT problems, but yet MACE
reports that both FATs are okay.
If anyone has any ideas, including re-formatting, please drop me a line
via e-mail. I will summarize to the net, as usual.
Thanks.
Chris.
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