said:
>Okay, I'm in deep doo doo now. I would be deeply, deeply ... eternally
>grateful if I could get help to extricate myself out of this mess. I
>went to the subject machine to try to see what might repair the errant
>file. The last DFSee I had on hand was 3.40.
I see. The stone knives and bearskins version. :-)
Actually, it works fine. It just lacks all the new features and menus.
>a maintenance partition on at some point). In any case, a couple of
>hours later, it was done and it had found 13 errors ranging from sector
>00244591 to 009B5863. DFSee had the following message: SN table Bad
>Sector Scan: holds 13 sectors DFS Message 916: SN exceeds current
>limit.
None of this should have had any effect on your disk drive. The scan
builds an in-memory table. Nothing you have said so far in any way
implies you ask dfsee to write anything to the drive.
>Well, it now appeared as if the machine was wiped.
>DFSee reports "Master boot record is not valid, no partitions recognized"
>and trying to boot the machine yields an "Operating System not found"
>message.
You have problems, but it is unlikely that dfsee caused them.
>Did I wipe it with the scan from 3.40?
Not unless the drive malfunctioned during the scan.
>Am I lost?
Don't know. Let the box sit for the night with the power off. Check all
the connectors and such in the morning. Let's see what happens. I'll
look at the log later in the A.M.
One thing to keep in mind is that since the ISO boots FreeDOS, it must use
different drivers than when booting eCS/OS2. This can affect how dfsee
sees the drive and if dfsee can see the drive correctly. This is why if
one listens to my opinions, they will notice that I always recommend
running dfsee from a booted eCS/OS2 setup. I am a firm believer that the
testing environment should be as close as reasonably possible to the
production environment.
Steven
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