[thechat] Win FAT Repair Utility?

chris hardy lists at semioticpixels.com
Fri Jan 21 17:00:58 CST 2005


actually, scandisk was part of norton disk doctor - Microsoft bought it and
renamed it scandisk.

-chris

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thechat-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Luther, Ron
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 2:36 PM
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> Subject: RE: [thechat] Win FAT Repair Utility?
> 
> 
> Judah McAuley chimed in:
> 
> >>Two quick things come to mind:
> >>fdisk /mbr  ... that writes a new master boot record and 
> can fix file
> >>allocation problems. It is non-destructive (unless you have a boot 
> >>sector virus).
> 
> Hi Judah!
> 
> Pretty close ... I think I read earlier today that you can't 
> have a space 
> in that command. 
> 
> <shocking confession>
> I don't 'fdisk' often. 
> 
> I KNOW! You wouldn't think it to look at me ... but it's true.
> 
> So I 'cheated' and surfed around for some instructions ... 
> the ones I ended 
> up stealing were pretty emphatic about not including any 
> spaces in that 
> command.
> <20 Hail Mary's and I'm outta here! />
> 
> 
> >>Look for an old copy of Norton Disk Doctor.
> 
> Oh wow! ... ;-) ... Cool! ... You got me good, dude ... I had 
> *completely* forgotten about that!  You are right!  That was a 
> pretty good utility.
> 
> (Dang! I wouldn't have guessed you were old enough to 'member that!)
> 
> Good call! 
> 
> (There ain't no way I'm gonna find a copy - but yeah - an excellent 
> recommendation anyway!)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> RonL.
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