Op 29-8-2009 3:21, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schreef: > [Eric] >> Please explain what you mean by strange... You should also be able to >> drop bad items with CHKDSK / DOSFSCK. >> > By strange I mean: > > (1) Their names were full of illegal characters. > > (2) They could not be deleted or moved, either by file managers or > directly from the FreeDOS command line, nor could they be fixed with > CHKDSK / DOSFSCK. > > (3) If they were folders, it was in some cases impossible to enter > them and see the files they supposedly contained. > > This has not happened in recent file damage episodes, which leads me > to believe it was related to the DN direct disk access, or to > DOSLFN, both of which I no longer use. > Last I know is that Chkdsk only properly operates on FAT12/FAT16, without support for FAT32, however also no warning mentioning the suggestion of using DOSFSCHK instead. I'm not sure if long file name support is implemented in CHKDSK (be DOSLFN/LFNDOS active currently or not..).
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