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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:58:26 -0700
From:	"Jon Harrison" <jharrison@seadog.reno.nv.us >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Thumb drive was accessible in eCS, then it wasn't . . . .

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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:06:51 -0700, J R FOX wrote:

>
>Thanks, Jon. *Whose* CHKDSK -- theirs, or ours ?

Depends on format of partition & what OS you are in.

I reformatted my thumb drive so I'm not restricted to 8.3
filenames. I have a small fat16, ntfs, & hpfs.

If I don't eject properly, or sometimes I guess it is just bad juju
with electrons and the thumb drive can't be read for some reason.
I can't read hpfs partition in 'their' OS so it gets ignored
regardless if it is clean or not. If it's a problem I fix it when
I am booted to eCS. Similiarly, I can't fix the ntfs while booted
to eCS as I don't use the required driver (and am not so sure that
it would fix the problem even if it was loaded).

So I use the chkdsk that is applicable to the specific partition.

For my small fat16 partition I don't recall that it mattered which
OS I was booted into, I ran whatever chkdsk there was. I've always
managed to get the data to reappear using chkdsk that is applicable
to the partition for which the data is missing and for fat16 I
don't think it made a difference.

Jon

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