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Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:50:24 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: PMSHELL CPU hog

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Steven Levine wrote:

>Does UpDateCD require the partition to have the installable flag set?
>
UpDateCD IS W4, so yes.

>>InfoZip of the partition plus copies of inis plus DeskSave. DeskSave
>>does not "correct" a desktop, it creates new directories and objects
>>resulting in a lot of duplicate objects but without the normal icons.
>>
>>
>
>That's because a useful restore routine will delete the existing Desktop
>tree and the associated .INIs and restore both from the backup. The
>nature of things is that you can often get away without deleting the tree,
>but to me, it's pennywise, especially, the first time a restore fails.
>
>
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>>With the empty tray, that was created because the OS said the old one
>>was corrupted, the activity monitor was still pegged. System setup had
>>
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>Keep in mind that when the WPS creates a new Desktop, it does not delete
>all the remnants of the old Desktop. That is your job. Sometimes the
>leftovers can cause problems.
>
>You probably have gotten to the point where you have multiple Desktop
>trees and multiple Nowhere directories.
>
I deleted the contents of the Desktop directory, but left the
directory. Then restore from DeskSave seemed to produce the proper
objects but with none of the normal icons.

>>I had an AMD socket 7 that I could restore by; boot to
>>floppy\format\unzip. Worked every time.
>>
>>
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>I'm not sure what this says. If you mean that backup image will restore
>to different hardware and work, perhaps you do have a hardware problem,
>but that's not a sure thing. The WPS can have lots of references to other
>drives. Unless you restore every drive for a matching backup set, you are
>mixing apples and oranges.
>
ZIP E:, UNZIP E:. One partition, same machine, altho it can work rather
well to clone a similar machine, give or take a few hardware drivers;
sound, mouse...

>>OS/2 cannot see C drive, from HDD or floppy. DOS and W98SE boot from
>>that drive.
>>
Now it does see it. Stay tuned. The WarpCenter saga continues.

>This could be a driver issue. You might need an updated IDE driver.
>OTOH, you might just have a corrupted BM setup and need to work on it with
>fdisk or dfsee.
>
It seems that OS/2 requires BM for it to install. After some other OS
selector takes over - SC, OSS...- BM never needs to be active again, or
even remain on the drive.

>>Extended partitions sometimes become type F "spontaneously".
>>Come on. There's a reason for everything. It's either an SC or WinXX
>>feature.
>>
I didn't say it didn't have a reason. I am sure it a Win "feature".
It's just that I don't know when or how it happens. With DANI OS/2
doesn't seen to care. However, I have not been able to get boot
floppies to see type F. CONFIG.X seems to use DANI.

Ray

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