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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:58:45 EDT
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
- Subject: File0000.chk
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- This is not strictly an NB question, but it's worried me off and on
- for some time, and has recently come back in spades:
-
- Last night while formatting a backup tape, I pulled out the power
- cord (don't ask . . .); I replugged in, reformatted.
-
- 1) My defragger(s) [I checked two kinds] told me unallocatted clusters;
- I ran chkdsk /f, picked up many. Went back to defrag, still got
- unallocated, kept running chkdsk /f, and it refused to pick them up
- (all caches, tsr's, etc., unloaded).
-
- Anyway, I had the defragger kill the 77 clusters [stupid move, probably?];
- now, in my disk, i was stunned to see over 800MB in filexxxx.chk files,
- each 2048K, and almost every one filled w/ the same series of graphics
- symbols. Can I kill these, detritus from the tape/powerout?
-
- This raises the question whenever I look into a file0000.chk: some of them,
- including the ones I have currently, have IBID data. How do I know if
- this data is definitely a lost sheep, and must be put back by hand
- (besides running the relevant programs)??
- Is that incorrect? What if it's binary code, and I can't do anything w/ it
- (or am I being overly worried in thinking that my programs have
- had bits and pieces gouged out of them?)
-
- Thanks,
-
- Robert Braham
- Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Bitnet: RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
- Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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