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Date:	Thu, 2 May 2002 08:31:57 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS2 Maintenance Partititon

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jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the Partition Magic URL. Since I received a patch attached to
> an e-mail from Ray Davison, I may not need it.

I got that patch a long time ago, I did not realize there is a whole
family of patches. Run whatever PM you have, go to HELP\ABOUT note the
version, and run the appropriate patch.
>
> 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.

I just put an 80G in a 1999 and a 20G in a 1998, both socket seven. The
98 BIOS cannot handle the 80G. I have not tried to get OS/2 to see what
the BIOS cannot, yet.
>
I have moved several HDDs lately and for the first time I used the copy
function in PM 3.05 to clone partitions from the old drive to the new.
Works fine. One gotcha - at least for me - the target must be unused
space; not just unfilled or unformatted but undefined. This is because
copy actually creates a new partition. It can be inside an extended
partition. It will be the same size as the source partition. You can
then resize it to suite.

I have used unzip to clone a ziped OS/2 boot partition to a different
drive.

Ray

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