X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to opendos-bounces using -f To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 01:25:50 -0500 From: "Dominic Winston" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: X-Sent-Mail: on X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: 2nd FAT? X-Sender-Ip: 66.46.60.89 Organization: Angelfire (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Hi! I have a hard drive that crashed. It was formatted, with several logical partitions, under DR-DOS 5.0; and I had DR-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 installed on it. It crashed during a Windows 3.1 freeze-up. I managed to get into the crashed drive and found that, in each sector, the primary FAT of each logical drive was corrupted. But, according to Norton Utilities, the second copy of the FAT is still ok. So my question is... how can the (apparently) intact second copy of the FAT be copied over the corrupted first copy of the FAT? Would doing that bring my directories and files back? And, if so, is there a method to replace FAT number one with the FAT number two? Norton Utilities doesn't seem to be able to do this directly and I've searched for a command-line utility to do this but to no avail. Why does DOS have two FAT's if one FAT can't easily be used to restore the other?? Any ideas? Nick Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com