On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:38:57AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > What was really strange was that the data that was written over > the FAT and the root directory's sectors was data from a file on a > _different_ FAT partition. > > And a later time it corrupted my C: disk, it was the _same_ file > (from a different filesystem (partition)) whose contents was written > all over the FAT and the root directory (at the exact same sector > offset). that soudns like a very badly behaving driver/program/something-or-other. Do you know what the file is that keeps overwriting? might be a clue. Maybe its not a problem with fsck.vfat but with somethign else that is overwriting the FAT and then fsck.vfat gets all confused trying to recover a borked FAT. just a thought. > > > (Not if I could only figure out what part of my kernel still > sucks and keeps causing more filesystem corruption...) bad drive? A
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