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- OSWPDKTP - DESKTOP CANNOT BE LOCATED
- 10/19/94
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- DESKTOP CANNOT BE LOCATED
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- Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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- Use the following procedure when you see the "Desktop Cannot be
- Located" message that is not associated with a trap.
-
- If the files are crosslinked, copy the crosslinked files from the
- hard disk to diskette. Delete the files from the hard disk then,
- copy the files from the diskette to the hard disk.
-
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- RUNNING CHKSDK:
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- 1. Insert the OS/2 Installation Diskette in Drive A: and press
- Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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- 2. When prompted, remove Installation Diskette and insert
- Diskette 1.
-
- 3. Press Enter.
-
- 4. When the Welcome screen appears, press Esc to display the
- command prompt, A:.
-
- 5. Remove Diskette 1 and insert Diskette 2, which contains
- the CHKDSK command.
-
- 6. Type the appropriate CHKDSK command followed by the drive on
- which OS/2 resides and press Enter.
-
- For FAT file systems, type: CHKDSK X: /F
- For HPFS file systems, type: CHKDSK X: /F:2
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- X is the drive where OS/2 resides
-
- If you installed from CD, the command prompt stops at CD
- drive in DISK_1 subdirectory. Change to DISK-2 subdir.
-
-
- 7. Go to the drive that contains OS/2 and change to the OS/2
- subdirectory,
-
- 8. Delete OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI. If you get "Access Denied"
- type:
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- ATTRIB OS2*.INI -R
-
- Now you can delete the files.
-
- 9. Copy OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI from the OS2\INSTALL
- subdirectory to the OS2 subdirectory.
-
- 10. From your OS2 subdirectory, type:
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- MAKEINI OS2.INI INI.RC and press Enter.
- MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC and press Enter.
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- 11. Change back to your root directory, and delete entire
- DESKTOP directory structure, including the DESKTOP
- directory. If you have more than one desktop directory, do
- the same for each one.
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- If your system is formatted HPFS, you must include directory
- names with spaces in them in double quotes. You must delete
- all files in a directory before you can remove the
- directory. Also, you cannot be in the directory when you
- remove it.
-
- 12. From the root directory, type:
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- ATTRIB WP?ROOT.?SF -H -R -S and press Enter.
- DEL WP?ROOT.?SF and press Enter.
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- 13. Remove any diskettes from the diskette drive and restart the
- system.
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