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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:50:38 -0400, Brooks McNeely wrote: >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- Apparently, the file system has errors, so I will low level format the drive later today. I got the files off with a utility that allows one to mount HPFS drives under DOS. If you would like I could send the utility later today. So the new drive was HPFS, but the stupid Michaelangelo.stoned virus attacked it because my OS/2 boot disks were infected, so I reformatted it to FAT, and now will be careful about changing file systems without adequete backups. I don't know what exactly happened to the 250MB though, so I don't know whether it was a virus or not. Paul