I have had a lab user who experienced this on her home machine. The second
disk, with the corrupted FAT, was recoverable using the Scandisk
application. (Start - Programs - Accessories - (System Tools) - Scandisk)
However, the old FAT and the new FAT merged, so there were quite a few files
listed that were not actually there. However, we were at least able to
recover the existing files.
While I hope this helps, I am really curious to see who else has had this
problem and any possible cause.
Harry
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> I was looking at some floppies in Win95b Explorer this morning.
> When I got to a certain one, I saw it was IDENTICAL to the last one.
> This was not possible. (In ALL of this, I did NOT write to ANY
floppies...)
> Somehow, the FAT of the floppy I had just looked at "became" the FAT
> of the next one... Sounds odd, I know, but I looked at the floppy in a
> disk editor and confirmed that as a FACT.
> Now, (of course), the second floppy has all sorts of logical errors when
> checked with Norton Disk Doctor, and all the original files are not
> accessible -- (what ever they were...)
> Does this sound like a "certain virus", a bad floppy drive, or system
problems?
> Any info, on or off list, will be appreciated. [log in to unmask]
> Rick
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