Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:46:25 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: "A. Sinan Unur" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: chkdsk, djgpp and win 95 (was Re: Exclusive access to drive) In-Reply-To: <3394489E.1972@cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote: > Volume LEEADR7 created 03-04-1997 2:17p > Volume Serial Number is 2C5D-14E1 > Processing cannot continue - File allocation table bad > > invoking chkdsk on the command line in the same dos box gives the usual > output. i will try the same with VC++ 4.0 at home. > > if i remember the original post correctly, his problem was that chkdsk > would not be invoked at all. on the machine i tried this on at least, it > will be invoked but gives and error. No, the original problem was this exact error message, because CHKDSK doesn't scan the disk at all after printing it.