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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:26:25 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Partition contents gone, source of problem found

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I have learned a new dumb trick. Take File Commander/2. View two FAT
partitions. On one partition, select a bunch of subdirectories; make
sure the total size of the files selected is greater than the free space
on the other partition. Press copy. Copy will fail and produce an
error message - path not found - when the free space is filled. When
the smoke clears, the second partition will be empty, sort of. Out of
the total space on the drive, about 65K will be free, the rest will be
used, but not accessible, including whatever was there before you
started.

I did this three times before I realized what was happening. I just did
it on purpose.

I have been communicating with Jan van Wijk to try to find a way to
retrieve the files. I am not aware of any other OS/2 tool.

Meanwhile, the files I just copied, and lost, I reclaimed using Norton
Disk Doctor 2002 under W98SE. I formatted the drive, did the same copy,
and reclaimed the files using NDD DOS - dated 2/28/94 - under DRDOS7.03.

I would do these things under OS/2 if I knew of tools.

You say get rid of FAT. It is the common denominator file system. My
preferred Word processor, accounting and PCB layout programs are DOS.
The accounting program runs OK under OS/2. The WP, in a window, without
just the right settings, OS/2 locks up. The PCB program? Forget it,
needs DOS. And then there is that damn M$ stuff I am forced to use.

Ray

Ray Davison wrote:
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> HDD 2 20G. Single extended partition 13G. 4 logical 2G FAT 1 logical
> 5G HPFS.
> Third partition, File Commander/2 says:
> Fat, 2088128K total, 65536 free, 0 files use 0 bytes, Directory is
> empty.
> CHKDSK says:
> run-time error R6000
> - stack overflow
>
> run-time error R6001
> - null pointer assignment
>
> Can I recover the files on this partition?
>
> Ray
>

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