Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 12:20:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: chkdsk, djgpp and win 95 (was Re: Exclusive access to drive)
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> program is a mystery to me. i feel like i am shooting in the dark on
> this one. i'll probably try to figure out what is going on, but i would
> very much appreciate if anyone can suggest places/things to look at.

I would suggest to ivestigate why does it complain about the FAT being
corrupt.  One approach would be to use some program that spies on
DOS/BIOS function calls issued by a program and see which calls does
CHKDSK use and why do they fail.  Sorry, I don't have enough time to
give precise pointers to such spy programs.  Two things that come to
mind are the INTRSPY program from "Undocumented DOS" by Schulman
et. al. and a similar program published in the PC Magazine about two
years ago (sorry, I forgot the name).  I don't know whether these will
work on Windows 95.  Or, you could always roll your own program that
does such a spying.