I can't defrag, error message says "drive contains one or more backup copies of FAT, the copies should be identical but aren't scan disk for errors but can't fix the problem, I haven't done any backups I wouldn't know how I can't Defrag and have re-formatted my hard drive twice but the problem remains,. What do you reckon I should do. Cheers!............Graham
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Jump to PostThe FAT/FAT32 filesystems automatically create a backup File Allocation Table in case the primary FAT gets corrupted. Of course, as you're seeing, the implementaion isn't entirely perfect.
If a reformat didn't clear things up:
1. Get a bootable floppy with fdisk on it.
2. Boot from that and …
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