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Date:	Thu, 2 May 2002 09:35:28 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS2 Maintenance Partititon

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In <20020502060339.AHZ7485.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@MYPC>, on 05/01/02
at 10:03 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>My floppies to boot OS/2 were made from FP15 files. So I assume I have
>the necessary drivers unless some of Daniella's are needed.

The IBM drivers should be OK for a 20GB drive. You'll know soon enough.
:-)

>But I think now that I will Install the 15 gig hard drive to verify that
>the bios on my 1997 FIC 2007 motherboard will handle it, copy the messed
>up OS/2 partition and all other partitions to it, and do all of my
>cleanup on the new drive.

One benefit of using Dani's drivers is that you can use the supplied
DiskInfo tool to get a good idea of what support the BIOS has.

>My current drive is 2 gig and the bios assigned LBA to it. I am pretty
>sure there is a bad spot on it because I remember a SYS screen
>accompanied by some horrible noises.

A format should take care of that. The bad sectors should get mapped out.

Steven

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