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Eric Gisin
Windows 2K does not handle bad sectors in the FAT of a FAT32 volume very well.
Applications return a variety of misleading error messages which confuse even
experienced users.
The first access to a FAT32 volume results in a read of the boot sector,
followed by many 4KB reads of the first FAT. If it encounters a bad sector,
the volume mount fails.
When you logon, the desktop will be slow to launch. It is accessing the volume
many times. You can run cmd from task manager.
In My Computer, the drive shows as "local disk". Attempting to open it results
in the message "The disk in drive X is not formatted. Do you want to format
it?" (don't).
Accessing it with dir from cmd results in something like "the file system is
not recognized" (boot sector is fine). Chkdsk says "errors found, cannot
continue... ".
In my case, I read both FATs with dskprobe. Both have errors. Should I use
chkdsk/f or manually copy a sector from the good fat to the bad?
Applications return a variety of misleading error messages which confuse even
experienced users.
The first access to a FAT32 volume results in a read of the boot sector,
followed by many 4KB reads of the first FAT. If it encounters a bad sector,
the volume mount fails.
When you logon, the desktop will be slow to launch. It is accessing the volume
many times. You can run cmd from task manager.
In My Computer, the drive shows as "local disk". Attempting to open it results
in the message "The disk in drive X is not formatted. Do you want to format
it?" (don't).
Accessing it with dir from cmd results in something like "the file system is
not recognized" (boot sector is fine). Chkdsk says "errors found, cannot
continue... ".
In my case, I read both FATs with dskprobe. Both have errors. Should I use
chkdsk/f or manually copy a sector from the good fat to the bad?