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At 10:47 PM 8/23/97, Paul Khoury wrote:
>I am having really BAD problems with my DHAA-2270 drive,
>which maybe someone can lend some expertise. I copied stuff
>from a 340MBdrive from a 755 onto it (formatted w/HPFS), and the
>340 is, or at least was, FAT. I just wanted to convert to HPFS. Now,
>the old drive is converted, but the temp. drive won't let me access it,
>and besides using Linux, I don't know how I can access it. Maybe
>there are other advanced OS/2 users on this list who can assist me.
>
Not sure if I fully understand. You have either a 250MB or 340 MB hard
drive, recently formatted HPFS, that is now inaccessible when you boot to
OS/2. You didn't use Partition Magic or other utility to do conversion.
Usually these problems go away when the inaccessible drive is chkdsk'd. You
can't use chkdsk on it if the system thinks something is allocated on the
drive - maybe something in config.sys references a file on the drive.
Usually, if one can't run chkdsk from a normal boot, one must boot from
floppies. Warp now includes a utility to create (system/boot) diskettes in
the system setup folder. (I think it uses 4 diskettes). Kenneth Kahn (sic)
wrote a utility to create Warp boot diskettes that's available as IBM EWS
(employee written software). I think it only uses two diskettes. Lastly you
can boot from the install disks and escape out to a diskette prompt. Then
the next diskette in the install set has chkdsk and the uhpfs.dll on it (if
memory serves).
Then run chkdsk x: /f:2 or /f:3 where x: is the inaccessible partition.
You answer so many OS/2 questions, I'm afraid that I may have misunderstood
your problem, since my answer is fairly simple.
Brooks
Brooks McNeely
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.
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