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Subject: Re: lenoid's chess program screwed my hard drive--suggestions?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:32:57 04/06/00

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On April 06, 2000 at 13:26:44, Pete Galati wrote:

>On April 06, 2000 at 13:09:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>I decided to download Lenoid's chess program to see how it compares to TSCP.
>>
>>I used his program to save a game. It wrote a file to my desktop which I can not
>>open, move, rename, or delete.
>>
>>Can anybody think of a solution to this problem? I've rebooted and run Scandisk
>>from DOS and Windows. It thinks everything is fine. I don't have any other disk
>>utilities.
>>
>>-Tom
>>
>>P.S.  TSCP won _decisively_.
>
>A hidden file?  Try using the file manager instead of the explorer, and in the
>file manager Veiw/By_File_Type, check the "show hidden/system files"  It should
>be in your Windows/desktop directory right?  You should be able to see it with
>winfile, hit alt-enter to change it's file attributes, and dump the file.
>
>Dos usually is hard to find hidden files with unless you know the specific file
>name and where it is, if you do, the old "attrib -h filename" should make it
>show up (if I remember that right.)
>
>Pete

No, the file is clearly visible. If I try to delete it under Windows, I get an
error message. If I try to delete it under DOS, it says the file can't be found
(although it's clearly there when I do a "dir").

It seems like my FAT is messed up, but I thought Scandisk would fix that...

-Tom



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