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Subject:	Re: Floppy FAT problem.
From:	Dave Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 27 Feb 2000 03:23:45 -0800
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On 25 Feb 00, at 10:16, Rick Glazier wrote:

> 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?

  It sounds like the "disk change" signal from the drive was missed,
either due to a failed sensor or damage to the floppy drive cable.
(Since this signal is at one edge of the cable, it is often the only
one damaged.

David G

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