I'm happy that you got your problem solved Dave, nice job..
Rick
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> "Rick Chauvin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Dave,
>>
>> Do you have a copy of Partition Magic, or if not can you even borrow
>> someone's boot disk of it so can you simply run it on that drive and the
>> important question would be what does it call that partition? ..and any
>> other info it will tell you. I've never heard of FAv 32 ! ..and I'm
>> assuming you were reading what it said correctly..
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> "Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> > If you read this entire message, you should understand why it is
>> > cross-posted.
>> > I have two PC's on a network (router). #1 OS is W98; #2 has a
>> > swappable drive bay where I put W2000 Pro OR W98 as the primary drive.
>> > I want to be able to access the 4GB slave drive in #2 either from
>> > W2000 or across the network from #1 (W98). When W2000 in #2 would not
>> > recognize the slave as a formatted drive, I checked it with fdisk and
>> > it reported the partition info as a FAv 32 ! drive (exclamation
>> > included in info). I put the W98 drive into #2 and it read the disk
>> > fine. So I fdisk'ed it and formatted it as a FAT32.
>> >
>> > Everything was OK for a day until I accessed the slave files in #2
>> > across the network using #1. All of a sudden W2000 would not recognize
>> > the drive. Checked it with fdisk again and it reports the partition
>> > info as "FAv 32 !"!! In case you're wondering, no I am not using
>> > Outlook (which I understand uses files with a .fav extension) and no
>> > email programs were run at either end of the network during this
>> > screw-up. BTW, Windows Explorer in 98 again reports the drive is a
>> > FAT32.
>> >
>> > So, generally, anybody know what is going on? Have you FAT32 guys ever
>> > heard of a FAv 32 ! format? Any takers from the networking forum? I'm
>> > stumped and frustrated. I need to know why my slave drive in #2 is
>> > being altered.
>
> I never heard of Partion Magic until yesterday, but I did figure it
> out. I was able to corrupt the disk again within W2K on #2, which made
> me realize it's not a network or W98 problem. After more searching, I
> found in the MS Knowledge Base that a known bug may cause W2K to
> corrupt a FAT32 boot sector, wherein chkdsk will report the partion is
> RAW (which it did). A W2K program (dskprobe.exe) can copy the backup
> FAT32 boot sector back on to the original sector. When viewing the
> boot sector with this utility, it was all 0's (wiped clean). I
> repaired the disk with dskprobe and so far, so good. BTW, I strongly
> advise reading the MS KB article on dskprobe before using it!! And
> your assumption was correct about reading FAv 32! when using fdisk on
> that drive.
>
> Apparently, W2K service pack 4 should prevent the problem from
> recurring. Thanks to all for responding, and I hope this helps
> somebody else one day.
> Regards,
> Dave
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