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Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2001 14:26:31 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Sysinstx

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Rocky wrote:

> Normally, when you do an XCOPY /h /o /t /s /e /r /v from a drive that
> you boot to, to a drive to which you are "upgrading" assuming HPFS to
> HPFS, the system files are supposed to copy with position information in
> tact. IOTW, OS/2 should boot to the new drive with no problem when it is
> swapped in the old drive's place. That didn't happen for me once
> (although I'm not sure why it didn't work, then), which is what prompted
> me to do the SYSINSTX again, just to make sure.

I was speaking in a much more general sense: Forget the h/d cloning scenario. If, for some
reason, one needed to re-apply the Sysinstx to a partition previously so initialized (I
guess, due to symptoms similar to those you experienced, where the correct boot partition
does not seem to be pointed to), could any harm be done ? That was really my question. It
is even possible I had to do this once, but if so I cannot recall the circumstances. If it
ever did come up, it must have worked, because conspicuous failures I definitely do tend to
recall. And if a partition that should be there for boot purposes is missing in action, I
guess one would have little to lose by trying.

Jordan

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