I have a Maxtor 120G USB external hard drive I use with my XP operating system. It is a FAT32 file system and XP is NTFS.
I had just installed the drivers for the Maxtor and Dantz Retrospect. For a reason unrelated to that installation, I rebooted and checkdisk began to run and was checking the Maxtor drive. It found many files that were "crosslinked" in various sectors and the "problem" was resolved by copying. It seemed that at least the majority of files checkdisk referred to were personal image files.
Questions: What is crosslinking and what and where were things copied to? I find no duplicates of pictures on either the Maxtor or C: drives.
John Jacobson
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