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Desktop recovery options
Your archive is always built to unzip from the root of the drive you
archived the information from. This means that when it is executed, it will
unzip into the proper directories automatically. There are no provisions for
unzipping from a remote location although it can be done if you know your
way around Unzip.
For the purposes of this discussion we will use "Cdrive.exe" as the archive
name we will be using to recover the mythical "C" drive in our example.
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General recovery (easy):
Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with
your OS/2 installation disks.
Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive
(the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive
Reboot normally
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General recovery with corrupted desktop recovery included:
Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with
your OS/2 installation disks.
Rename or delete the "Desktop" directory. We suggest renaming it until
you have fully recovered. So, from the root of the boot drive you
would type:
ren desktop desktop1
Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive
(the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive
Reboot normally
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Corrupted desktop recovery only (no other files included):
Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with
your OS/2 installation disks.
Rename or delete the "Desktop" directory. We suggest renaming it until
you have fully recovered. So, from the root of the boot drive you
would type:
ren desktop desktop1
Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive
(the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive desktop\*
Reboot normally
Use "Cdrive *\" if you only want the directories and no files (or templates)
that may be in them.
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Recovery of INI files only:
Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with
your OS/2 installation disks.
Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive
(the drive it was built from) with the -C *.ini parameter by typing:
Cdrive -C *.ini
Reboot normally
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Recovery of INI and CFG files only:
Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with
your OS/2 installation disks.
Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive
(the drive it was built from) with the -C *.ini and *.cfg parameters by
typing:
Cdrive -C *.ini *.cfg
Reboot normally
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General recovery to another location using "unzip.exe":
Execute "unzip.exe" on the Cdrive.exe file that is located in root
directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) and make it
extract itself in the f:\backup directory with the -d parameter by
typing:
unzip -d f:\backup cdrive.exe
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Recovery of "hidden files" while keeping their "hidden" attributes.
(os2ldr os2boot etc.)
Execute "unzip.exe" on the Cdrive.exe file that is located in root
directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) and make it
extract only the os2* files while recovering their "hidden" file
attributes by typing:
unzip -C cdrive.exe os2*
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There are a couple of things to remember about recovering your
configurations and also some tips or tricks to help you recover only
selected parts.