Ed,

Yes. Crosslinking and file truncation still happens on current hard drives,
although not to the extent of the "Dos days."

Good luck with your problems

J. Dent

At 08:47 PM 9/30/2004, you wrote:
>John . . .  Cross-linking was, according to my antique memory, quite a problem
>in DOS days.  And I think even in COM and Comm64 times.  It's my
>understanding it identified a case in which a particular byte was a part
>of two
>distinct files.  This seems to make sense in that if one of those files were
>copied to a different location (and it couldn't, after all, be copied to
>its own
>initial location), then the initial instance could be destroyed.  Or
>ignored or
>something similar.  Make sense?                 ---ed nelson
>
>John Jacobson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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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