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Ray Davison wrote:
> Steve Carter wrote:
>
>> The latest version of PM that runs on OS/2 is 3.05, which is from the
>> Windows 95 era. Microsoft changed FAT 32 (slightly) between Win95 and
>> Win98 so I'm not sure whether PM 3.05 will properly handle Peter's
>> four FAT32 partitions,
>
>
> I use both 3.05 and 6. They will both run from a floppy while booted
> from a DOS floppy, assuming you have two floppy drives -- that way the
> HDDs are inert during configuration. Otherwise, burn it to a CD, or a
> ZIP drive.
>
>>
>> Scandisk is a Windows program. Peter has no Windows software, only
>> OS/2.
>
>
> Yes, we know, and that is the point. If you are going to use FAT32 and
> not have Win available to fix it, then if it dies, I guess he is lost,
> unless you know something else that will work. PM will delete it and
> recreate it. I guess that is a fix.
>
> Ray
FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org/> seems to have FAT32 support
<http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/>. I assume that it contains a
SCANDISK Util??
A great idea would be to use the FreeDOS FORMAT and SCAN program and
adapt them to OS/2...
MarkO
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