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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:15:52 PDT
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: chkdsk /f:3 (was TRAP0003)

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In <399E8ABE.70F2@peterskye.com>, on 08/19/00
at 06:25 AM, Peter Skye said:

>> I tend to recommend against using CHKDSK /F:3
>> unless all else fails. It often creates new problems.

>What kinds of problems?

I has a tendency to recover tons of garbage rather than fixing problems.
Also, I can't prove it, but I suspect it's the cause of some folks losing
the root directory of a HPFS drive. The latter is hard to prove because
the partition was already in trouble or the user would not have running
chkdsk.

Steven

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