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Date:	Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:23:01 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"scoug-help" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: help, I'm in attribute hell

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I'm in dire need of some help... I'm mired in an attributes/chkdsk problem.

I added a new hard drive today, then used a Powerquest DriveCopy 2.0
diskette to copy my existing Warp4 systems drive to the new drive. I used
PQmagic 5.0 to hide the old systems partition and booted from the new HD and
it appeared to work fine.

Next I wanted to resize and rearrange some of the other partitions to begin
to take advantage of the new capacity. I ran Win95 scandisk against a
half-dozen FAT partitions, including the E: partition, I'm pretty sure,
before starting work on it.

Using the PQmagic 5.0 diskette, I deleted an unused 500mb partition on an
old drive and did a combination of a move and a resize on my E: partition on
that same drive, basically moving an 850mb FAT partition 500mb closer to the
front of the drive and increasing it's size to about 1.4gb. Well into the
run, it ended with an error #2003 "File size does not match FAT allocation
for file". I interpreted that to mean perhaps the partition size was too big
(but, now I know that was not the meaning). The E: partition size is
currently listed as 1.47gb.

Warp4 is now unable to access the newly-altered E: partition (E: is an
important partition because it holds many installed vendor programs along
with some of their data, like MSOfficePro)... although it does show the E:
partition in the "drives" folder, it cannot list it's contents, giving the
following messages:

"No objects were found that matched the specified find criteria", then

"sys0279 The system detected an extended attributes read error"

If I run chkdsk (without /F) it comes up with a lot of extended attribute
error messages, each time saying it is correcting the error. But then Warp
still cannot list the files, because it didn't actually correct the errors.
If I try to run chkdsk /F it says it cannot run because the E: partition is
in use.

If I boot the Warp4 standalone diskettes and run fdisk /F, it says:

"sys1316 the version of extended attributes is incorrect. The format of the
extended attributes on this disk or diskette are incorrect for this version
of OS/2"

Windows95 boots fine and reads the altered partition without a problem
(shows the folders and about 20 "ea00nn" (where nn is a number) files and an
Eadata.sf file. If I run Win95 scandisk without "automatically fix errors",
it shows a lot of files with too-long path names.

So, in desperation I used Win95 to copy what I still have there in the E:
partition to another partition before I tried any permanent fixing, but some
of the files were not copied or their names were changed/truncated because
Win95 would not otherwise copy them. There also were about 20 files named in
the "ea00nn" format, plus an eadata.sf file, that Win95 would not move.

Still desperate, I bit the bullet and ran Win95 scandisk with the
"automatically fix errors" option. Afterward I still could not access the E:
partition with Warp4, getting this error:

"sys1316 The extended attributes are corrupted"

If I try running the checking tools of PQMagic, it comes up with these
errors:

"Error 501 cross-linked files were found"
"Error 2003 file size does not match FAT allocation for file"
"Error 3 not enough memory"

...and the PQmagic "fix" button is not enabled; nor will it resize the
partition, citing the same problems.

........

Does anyone have some advice on how to get out of this mess????

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