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re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Monday, January 6, 2003 at 9:39 am
Posted by kjzone
(1 messages posted)
Yes, Norton Utilities "Disc Doctor" will fit it in about 15 Seconds.
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re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 2:50 pm
Posted by Don Weber
(2 messages posted)
True, but even in Auto-Fix mode, Norton Disk Doctor (NDD.EXE) then thinks that a
"major catastrophe" has befallen one's FAT32 disk (when it's merely the incorrect
"Free Cluster Count"), and insists that you "Generate a Report" before it will continue
with the next drive. And even if you choose to skip the report, IT STILL REQUIRES
MANUAL INTERVENTION FROM THE USER!
(BTW, it is *MUCH* faster to run NDD at boot-up in DOS mode on ALL of one's disks,
before Windows starts; and it's nearly impossible to run NDD on C: after Windows
starts, because Windows is then constantly accessing the C: drive, which interrupts
NDD and causes NDD to restart endlessly.)
Generally, the ONLY thing that's wrong with my disks after (frequent) crashes is
the incorrect "Free Cluster Count", but NDD's *HALTING* and WAITING for the User
to "Generate [or skip] a Report" on *every* such trivial "error", turns an "automatic/auto-fix"
rebooting (when I could/should be doing something constructive during each of these
VERY long Windows reboots) into an EXASPERATING reboot, requiring incessant, distracting
-- and completely unnecessary -- MANUAL INTERVENTION!
Hence, the need for a straight-forward, SINGLE-purpose DOS utility program that will
run on FAT32 disks/partitions, and will simply and QUICKLY fix/correct *JUST* the
erroneous "Free Cluster Count", without doing ANY other disk checking or repairs.
Except when there are REAL disk errors -- which NDD *should* and *does* stop for
-- such a wonderful little program would enable fast, UNattended, automatic reboots
(*) withOUT causing NDD to halt on every trivial "Free Cluster Count" error, and
(*) withOUT causing McAfee's DiskMinder program to similarly HALT on every "Free
Cluster Count" error, and
(*) withOUT having to resort to ScanDisk (!horrors!), which, although it DOES fix
THAT error silently, it then takes for*EVER* to run it on 20+ large disks/ partitions!
:P
Does anyone know where we might find such a WONDERFUL little utility? This problem
has obviously gotten to be MUCH more than just an "annoyance" for me. So I apologize
for the occasional "SHOUTING", but *I* *AM* *NOW* *DESPERATE*! ;-)
Don Weber <>< donweber@starpower.net
On Monday, January 6, 2003 at 9:39 am, kjzone wrote:
>Yes, Norton Utilities "Disc Doctor" will fit it in about 15 Seconds.
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re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Monday, June 2, 2003 at 10:50 pm
Posted by unang sukendar
(2 messages posted)
We ALL must report this Bug to Microsoft. They should be responsible about software
that they made.
I've checked the Microsoft site, they doesn't have any articles that discuss this
matter. It seems that they didn't care about this annoyance.
On Saturday, March 2, 2002 at 8:48 am, Mohikaner wrote:
>I have a question about Explorer
>is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug):
>
>
>Due on my large Harddirves, it takes always about 5 to 10 Minutes to run Scandisk,
>to fix the "FAT32 Free Space Bug".
>
>Is there a tool, that only fixes the "Free Space Error" on the Harddrive without
>the latency of a full scandisk?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Mohikaner
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re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 4:23 am
Posted by Mohikaner
(4 messages posted)
Thanks for your answers.
I will give this "Disk Doctor" a try and also try to tell NDD that there was no major
catastrophe on my disks.
Otherwise, my Windows 98 has gone and is now replaced by XP, which is much more stable
(uptime of weeks are now possible), so the problem has mostly solved itself. But
for my temporary data disk, is use still the FAT32 file system. In fact, I have gone
also one step back and use now FAT16 for the boot drive. I also upgraded to a RAID1
system (for system, programs and important data), to reach more protection against
hardware failures.
btw. The name "Disc" is used for optical medias and "Disk" for magnetical medias.
So have a nice time and a running computer.
Mohikaner
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 2:50 pm, Don Weber wrote:
>True, but even in Auto-Fix mode, Norton Disk Doctor (NDD.EXE) then thinks that a
>"major catastrophe" has befallen one's FAT32 disk (when it's merely the incorrect
>"Free Cluster Count"), and insists that you "Generate a Report" before it will continue
>with the next drive. And even if you choose to skip the report, IT STILL REQUIRES
>MANUAL INTERVENTION FROM THE USER!
>
>(BTW, it is *MUCH* faster to run NDD at boot-up in DOS mode on ALL of one's disks,
>before Windows starts; and it's nearly impossible to run NDD on C: after Windows
>starts, because Windows is then constantly accessing the C: drive, which interrupts
>NDD and causes NDD to restart endlessly.)
>
>Generally, the ONLY thing that's wrong with my disks after (frequent) crashes is
>the incorrect "Free Cluster Count", but NDD's *HALTING* and WAITING for the User
>to "Generate [or skip] a Report" on *every* such trivial "error", turns an "automatic/auto-fix"
>rebooting (when I could/should be doing something constructive during each of these
>VERY long Windows reboots) into an EXASPERATING reboot, requiring incessant, distracting
>-- and completely unnecessary -- MANUAL INTERVENTION!
>
>Hence, the need for a straight-forward, SINGLE-purpose DOS utility program that
will
>run on FAT32 disks/partitions, and will simply and QUICKLY fix/correct *JUST* the
>erroneous "Free Cluster Count", without doing ANY other disk checking or repairs.
>
>Except when there are REAL disk errors -- which NDD *should* and *does* stop for
>-- such a wonderful little program would enable fast, UNattended, automatic reboots
>(*) withOUT causing NDD to halt on every trivial "Free Cluster Count" error, and
>(*) withOUT causing McAfee's DiskMinder program to similarly HALT on every "Free
>Cluster Count" error, and
>(*) withOUT having to resort to ScanDisk (!horrors!), which, although it DOES fix
>THAT error silently, it then takes for*EVER* to run it on 20+ large disks/ partitions!
>:P
>
>Does anyone know where we might find such a WONDERFUL little utility? This problem
>has obviously gotten to be MUCH more than just an "annoyance" for me. So I apologize
>for the occasional "SHOUTING", but *I* *AM* *NOW* *DESPERATE*! ;-)
>
>Don Weber <>< donweber@starpower.net
>
>
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re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 4:30 am
Posted by Mohikaner
(4 messages posted)
Thanks for your answer.
When i note this problem to Microsoft, i cant expect an answer.
When i post my problem here, the chances for a solution are even higher, as seen.
The only praticable thing to do, is to post microsoft a link to this thread.
In my opinion, microsoft should read all threads of annoyances.org and fix all these
problems.
Mohikaner
On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 10:50 pm, unang sukendar wrote:
>We ALL must report this Bug to Microsoft. They should be responsible about software
>that they made.
>I've checked the Microsoft site, they doesn't have any articles that discuss this
>matter. It seems that they didn't care about this annoyance.
>
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re: FAT32 Free Space Bug - PATCHED SCANDISK here!
Monday, November 1, 2004 at 6:06 pm
Posted by The Drive
(1 messages posted)
I'd looked for a "QuickFix" util for this "bug" for a few nights and had no luck,
so finally...
I've fixed SCANDISK.EXE from Win98SE (DOS part) so the check/fix is now taking just
a few seconds for a big 40Gb partition!
To get more info and download patched EXE go to:
http://scandisk.nm.ru (in English)
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