Reply to post: Re: Efficacy of warning messages

Ooo, a mystery bit of script! Seems legit. Let's see what happens when we run it

Paul Shirley

Re: Efficacy of warning messages

"IIRC each cluster entry (in the allocation table) would point to the next cluster. So chkdsk could've checked "is the next cluster in use by a different file by now..?"

CHKDSK does detect cross-linked files. Can't fix them for obvious reasons.

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