This does look strange

[Thomas Mueller]

>From Bernt Hansson <bah at bananmonarki.se>:

> After a reinstall of winxp, yes I know but the games.

> I have a fat32 slice/partition/postcard whatever it's called.

> Mocking me with:

> testbox# fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4
> ** /dev/ad4
> Invalid signature in fsinfo block
> Fix? yes
> fsck: /dev/ad4: Floating point exception: 8
> testbox#

> I've almost expected Haha

> Anyone know what to do, is there a msdosfs fsck?

Yes there is!  I missed this thread from webmail interface, but just found it.

It's in FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) and is part of the new FreeDOS 1.1; was also in FreeDOS 1.0:

Files in C:\FDOS\BIN having names beginning with D are


/dosc/fdos/bin/debug.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/defrag.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/defrag.hlp
/dosc/fdos/bin/deltree.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/devload.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/dhcp.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/disk_sim.cfg
/dosc/fdos/bin/diskcomp.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/diskcopy.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/display.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/dnstest.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/dosfsck.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/doslfn.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/dosshell.exe
/dosc/fdos/bin/dosshell.ini
/dosc/fdos/bin/drvon.com
/dosc/fdos/bin/du.exe

I am not in FreeDOS as I put this message together!

Tom