Hi Blair, Christian,

> IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems.  This might be your issue.

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Christian Groessler <fdos...@yahoo.de> wrote:

>> When I run "dosfsck c:" it reports everything ok:
>>
>> dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN
>> c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597 clusters

That is FAT16, clusters are less than 64k. The bug is elsewhere...

>> When I run "chkdsk" it reports many problems:

>> ChkDsk beta 0.9
>> Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL
>>
>> \KERNEL.SYS has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294901760, but 
>> the entry says it's 45341
>> \COMMAND.COM has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294868992, but 
>> the entry says it's 66945
...

This is a known bug from 2003, bugzilla says it would be fixed?

www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1633

I do not know what the current version is but a 0.91 exists:

www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1954

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2462084&group_id=5109&atid=105109

That version still fails for drives without subdirectories :-(

>>   2051.178.496 bytes total drive size
>>
>>   3007.194.720 Kb in a total of 3794 files
>>   4294.934.528 bytes in 1 hidden files
>>     13.008.896 bytes in 397 directories
>>        105.676 Kb total size of files
>>   1834.123.264 bytes available on the volume
>>
>>         32.768 bytes in every cluster
>>         62.597 total number of clusters
>>         55.973 number of free clusters

Eric


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