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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:06:03 PST8PDT
From: "Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com >
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Fwd: Help Desk

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Rollin,

I expect that this really should go to Terry or someone else, but I have
your name in my address book, so .... It looks like I will be dragging my
system up to the help desk on Monday evening, and I thought it would be a
good idea to try to give a forewarning of what "challenges" I am
experiencing so folks can be prepared or run away.

I was adding/changing a drive in my system, and all in all it went pretty
well. But at the end I ended up with what looks to be some formatting
problems that I do not know how to correct. It is running, but needs some
work. Here are the steps and symptoms.

Original system: P150, 32 meg ram, two drives

Drive 1 - Connor 520 [C, primary-fat; Boot Manager; Extended {E,HPFS(OS/2);
F,HFPS}]
Drive 2 - Samsung 340 [D, Primary-fat; Extended {G Fat}]

1) Added a BIOS extender card so my system can see the big disks, a Promise
Technology DriveMAX card. Everything checks out.

2) Hook up the new WD 6.4 gig drive as a secondary, checks out ok.

3) Use Partition Magic and Drive Copy to create partitions and move stuff
onto the new drive
Drive 3 - WD 6.4 [Free space for C, Primary-fat; Extended {E HPFS; F HPFS;
G FAT; D FAT}]
Checks out OK.

4) Pull out the old Drive 2 and put the new drive in as a slave. Drive Copy
the C drive to drive 2. Delete the two HPFS partitions on the drive 1.
Things still check out OK.

5) The plan is then to move the Boot Manager partition to the start of the
drive, create a primary partition using the rest of the drive as a FAT
drive, copy the C drive back and at some time in the future split it into
two primary partitions and install W98 there.

This is where stuff started to be strange. Drive Copy reported and error
116 (bad start and/or stop information on the partition table and was not
able to show any information on the drive. Partition Magic was the same.

Booting to the hard drive I get an error "Default system OS/2warp not
found, hit any key." Two space bars later I get Boot Manager which shows
all of the partitions instead of the two selections that I had before. If I
let this time out it boots to DOS off the C drive. I can select my OS/2
selection (E) and boot into that.

So that's what I know, it seems like a formatting thing on drive one, but I
am stumped.

Jon

Jon Lagerquist
Technical Director @ South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA
18-Apr-99 16:26

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