Hi all,
I had a strange occurrence this morning at boot up, Windows hung at splash screen and could not boot to windows. At first I rebooted to Command prompt Only and at the C: prompt used the scandisk /custom command and ran scandisk. Scandisk found a error reading drive and asked to move files. I exited out from that and rebooted with NDD floppy and used diagnose disk util.
Ndd found a bad block and asked to move files and also asked to create an undo file, I set this to create one in an extended partition, and hung during attempts to fix and had to reboot. running NDD again tells me FAT table did not match and must be repaired and I let it do that before it can continue, and when it does, it would hang again on the same attempt to fix that bad block area.

It was acting like a sick drive.

Finally, I went back to Scandisk and let it go to thorough mode.

No bad blocks

??????

When that was done, Windows began to start, but was missing a cache of system files and could not get to my desktop.

Fortunately, I had prepared for unevents like this and had made ghost image of my system into an extended partition of the drive when I first finished configuring my entire system with networking. I simply booted with Ghost floppy and restored Image to C: and all was well.

No errors or bad blocks were found either.

??????

Whatever...

Anyway, I got to wondering, if FAT table got changed, does Image return to original FAT?

How about if one makes an image in FAT 16 and at some point changed to FAT 32, then runs ghost, does it return to FAT 16?




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It's either that or it's into the woodchipper