Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-30 Thread Christian Masloch
2. Why do FreeDOS CHKDSK and DEFRAG (as well as MS-SCANDISK) report so many errors while DOSFSCK does not, and in practice the disks seem to work well? CHKDSK and DEFRAG ain't that reliable really. Regarding SCANDISK, maybe you used an old version (MS-DOS 6.x) on a hard disk that's addressed

[Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-28 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, \INSTRUC\SOFTWARE is a directory without '..' How did you brew it ??? I have no idea. All I can say is that those things appeared in two different hard disks, one in a desktop and one in a notebook. Whenever I run FreeDOS CHKDSK, it reports the same thing and refuses to

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-27 Thread dos386
1. Why does FreeDOS FDISK give an error message indicating that partitioning failed? I don't know, but because of crappy volume management in legacy DOS kernels you MUST REBOOT after exiting FDISK, otherwise random errors are a MUST :-( \INSTRUC\SOFTWARE is a directory without '..' How did

[Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-26 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I've been getting different results from the file system checking programs CHKDSK, DOSFSCK, DEFRAG from FreeDOS, as well as MS-SCANDISK. This is happening in two hard disks: Hard disk Type Computer Processor - -