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Posted by Randroid Terminator on 11/25/06 04:18
http://www.programurl.com/software/damaged-file-allocation-table.htm
president731@yahoo.com wrote:
> I've got a strange prob on my win98se machine, and I'm not sure if
> Winmx 3.31 caused it. I download files to my e:\incoming\ folder, where
> I keep them until I've completed download and virus checked them. I
> then move them over to this drive's d: partition for future use and
> storage.
>
> I had a couple videos I wanted to complete, so I fired up winmx. When I
> checked my transfers, they were missing, so I checked e:\incoming\ to
> make sure it didn't somehow get deleted. The correct number of files
> were present, but their names had all been changed to funky names. I
> immediately fired up my Avg Plus Firewall and did a scan on the folder,
> but it found nothing. I then ran a Scandisk on this drive, and was told
> that one fat table backup was corrupted, then I was told that a process
> had written to the drive during the Scandisk scan, so Scandisk must be
> restarted. I then checked my e: drive, and all the folders, including
> my incoming folder, had their names changed. I then discovered that
> both my e: and d: drives were given weird volume names (neither had any
> until this happened), and when I opened that drive, it too had the same
> problem. A virus check on my entire machine came up perfectly clean.
>
> Now I know this problem didn't start until after I fired up Winmx,
> because I'd been in e:\incoming\ just a few seconds before launching
> Winmx, and everything was correct. What has Winmx done to my drive, and
> how do I fix it, if possible? Thanks for any help.
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