Date: | Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:06:03 PST8PDT |
From: | "Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com > |
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Rollin,
I expect that this really should go to Terry or someone else, but I have
I was adding/changing a drive in my system, and all in all it went pretty
Original system: P150, 32 meg ram, two drives
Drive 1 - Connor 520 [C, primary-fat; Boot Manager; Extended {E,HPFS(OS/2);
1) Added a BIOS extender card so my system can see the big disks, a Promise
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
4) Pull out the old Drive 2 and put the new drive in as a slave. Drive Copy
5) The plan is then to move the Boot Manager partition to the start of the
This is where stuff started to be strange. Drive Copy reported and error
Booting to the hard drive I get an error "Default system OS/2warp not
So that's what I know, it seems like a formatting thing on drive one, but I
Jon
Jon Lagerquist
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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.
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.
F,HFPS}]
Drive 2 - Samsung 340 [D, Primary-fat; Extended {G Fat}]
Technology DriveMAX card. Everything checks out.
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.
the C drive to drive 2. Delete the two HPFS partitions on the drive 1.
Things still check out OK.
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.
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.
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.
am stumped.
Technical Director @ South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA
18-Apr-99 16:26
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