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NTFS.sys corrupt

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First post, by bennyboy

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Hi,

I used Dosbox for the first time over the weekend to run Champ Manager 97/98. All seemed fine but when I restarted the machine the next day I got an error saying that 'ntfs.sys is missing or corrupt' (i.e. game over).

Is this a dosbox bug or just coincidence?

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Reply 1 of 5, by Qbix

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probably coincidence. Or did you do a mount c c:\
and ordered the game to format your harddisk or so ?

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Reply 2 of 5, by bennyboy

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yeah I mounted c c:\ guess the game must have done something nasty to my file system. Oh well I needed to reinstall windows anyway...

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Reply 3 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

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Oh. I hope there is hope yet. That's why we do not advise mounted the root folder of C.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Dominus

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But for interest's dake I'd really like to know what that game did to your c:\ drive (if it wasn't bad coincidence or timing). It could serve as a perfect example why you shouldn't do that (mount c c:\).

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