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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:47:04 PDT
From:	LHegamin@ibm.net
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	<scoug-general@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Boot (HPFS?) Problems

I've been having hard disk problems, and was getting a disk error when
trying to boot. This only seemed to happen after I had to kill a program,
though, usually Filestar. I'm running Injoy a lot but the phone line is
shared with another computer and sometimes they are inadvertently
attempting to dial at the same time, which seems to contribute greatly to
the problem. So if I rebooted I would get the disk error. Warm boot
wouldn't do it, I would have to turn the computer completely off.

After getting past the boot failure due to disk error, I started getting
an error in config.sys something about WinAppCtl.

Or it would just sit there, after loading the drivers, but without
PMSHELL coming up.

So I attempted to restore the files I thought were in error, but only was
successful when I restored OS2SYS.INI and OS2.INI from the backup. These
are about two weeks old, now. It seemed to work the first time, and then
I had the problem again.

Now I get a SYS2069, which says something about COUNTRY.SYS. I've not
yet retried to restore this file.

I think what has happened is that I've been trying to restore files from
the backup using a maintenance partition which has the older version (pre
FP-7, which E: is) of CHKDSK and, I presume, of the HPFS IFS. And, of
course, I run CHKDSK from this maintenance partition.

Is there any easy way I can get back in sync? I can access E: from the
maintenance partition and probably from the floppy boot.

As I mentioned, I'm restoring from a maintenance partition using BA/2.
The backup file itself is stored on another partition, using FP7.

And before the boot problems, I was having problems backing up the
system, but I think this was because the backup disk was full.

I thought I recalled something about incompatibilities in the CHKDSK such
that it was not advisable to use the older CHKDSK against a partition
processed by the newer HPFS system. When I run CHKDSK from either the
maintenance partition or the utility disks, I suspect it is the older
version.

I don't mind rebuilding the partition if that is what I have to do, but
only as a last resort! Would copying over the FP7 CHKDSK and HPFS files
to the utility disks and the maintenance partition enable me to properly
restore the boot partition, if that indeed (CHKDSK) is the problem?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm lost without my OS/2 fix!

Lance

Lance (LHegamin@IBM.NET) on 09/29/98 at 08:31am

What do you mean you "formatted the cat"?!?!

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