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FAT and Directory Structure Corruption

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by wesley_dunn

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As anyone ever seen a DIR00001 directory being created in the route of
C:\, This seems to be a virus like fault
but Im not convinced, it only seems to happen on Win95, 98 more often than ending in a PC rebuild. I can sometime delete this directoryfrom DOS but am unsure of the cause and until I know that I cant get a long term fix, any thoughts would be appreciated.
Wes Dunn

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by kevg

I've had this fault many times, on win 95, 98 and dos.
When the directory table get corrupted and it loses the file name, a chkdsk or scandisk will report that the file name is incorrect, do you want to convert to a directory or a file?
It's sometimes dicey to decide which one to go for.
I don't think it will happen on NTFS or HPFS. I'm not sure about fat32.

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