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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   27 Mar 11 05:15:36   
   
   Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9   
   UTC)   
   s2.utilities:125 comp.os.os2.misc:3029   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > On every occasion but one running chkdsk under windows has fixed the    
   > problem (on my version of windows, it's called chkdsk, not scandisk).   
   >   
      
   You have Windows NT.  What problems does its CHKDSK report having fixed?   
      
   > After formatting a card FAT32 using DFSee, I find it necessary to    
   > eject and reinsert the card then run chkdsk before eCS will allow it    
   > to be used; I have never needed to run the windows version for that.   
   >   
      
   I know of two things that one can fail to do that will cause such    
   behaviour.  I expect Jan van Wijk knows the magic incantations for    
   formatting things on OS/2.  But maybe DFSee isn't performing one of    
   them.  Of course, the problems here could equally well be in the    
   filesystem driver and not the utility.   
      
   Do you want to give CHKVOL a go, too?  It sounds as if my FORMAT might    
   be useful to you, as well.   
      
      
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