PCs can cross link files when they are not shut down properly or when there is a power failure/spike. Its like opening a filing cabinet drawer, pulling some files out, putting them on top of that drawer and shutting the drawer. Things get mangled. Scandisk will attempt to fix this kind of damage, but its not guaranteed to save your files. You may end up losing files!

>>due to files cross-linking.
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>Hi Glenn:
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>Thank you for your response.
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>>due to files cross-linking.
>What does this mean?
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>>Have you run Scandisk or it's equivalent?
>No. Would doing so rectify the problem?
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>>If two files are sharing the same cluster this can happen.
>How does one avoid this?
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>>I'm not sure if this type of failure can occur on NTFS volumes, but I know it can on FAT or FAT32 volumes.
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>The datafiles reside on a Compaq PC (recently purchased) and I think the OS is Windows XP.
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>Thanks:)