Hi Michael,

> Has anyone else run chkdsk on their Freedos C drive and gotten this
> error?  I have a 500 meg partition which is probably FAT16.  I have
> used Windows 98 to defrag another partition that I allow freedos to
> access.  Is the implementation of FAT in 98 and Freedos compatible?
> 
> Using chkdsk, I tried a flag that I assume attempts a repair but it
> didn't fix the problem.  The only thought I have is backing up and
> reformatting my C drive.

Can you provide DOS dosfsck 2.11c -v output for that drive? I have
the feeling that maybe only the first word of the second FAT (?) is
zeroed, some tool might do that to flag a work-in-progress state.

Eric





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