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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Running CHKDSK Without Booting From a Floppy
- Message-ID: <3923@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:12:11 GMT
- Sender: news@isgtec.com
- Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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- There is a program on hobbes which lets you run chkdsk or even install
- updated .dll files without having to boot from a floppy disk. It either
- wasn't publicized when it appeared a couple of weeks ago, or else I
- completely missed the significance at the time.
-
- It is much like the recently-discussed shiftrun utility, only better,
- because it is a device driver, and so runs before any of the .dll files
- are loaded, and before any of the system files get locked. This lets
- you run chkdsk /f:3 on your swap partition (or any other) after a crash
- without having to reboot from the installation diskette. Someone on
- the IBM Toronto BBS said that they had installed all their bug fixes
- (except for the SP itself) without having to boot from a floppy.
-
- The original file is cdd.zip in pub/os2/all/drivers. It is freeware
- and includes the source code. This version assumes that OS/2 is
- installed on C: I just uploaded a modified version, cdd2.zip (that
- does NOT include the source code), that I found on the IBM Toronto BBS
- that will work with OS/2 installed on any logical drive.
- At the moment it is in pub/uploads, but will probably soon get
- transfered to pub/os2/all/drivers.
-
- The instructions in the .zip file are not very explicit. What I did was
- to add a line
-
- DEVICE=<path>\CDD2.SYS [<path> is the path to cdd2.sys]
-
- to my config.sys after the line
-
- DEVICE=?:\OS2\DOS.SYS
-
- I don't know how important the exact position in config.sys is, but
- that one seems to work. The next time you reboot, cdd2 will prompt you
- to type Esc to load CMD.EXE. If you don't do so within 5 seconds, it
- just carries on booting normally.
-
- This program should definitely be in the FAQ!
-
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- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
- ISG Technologies Inc. 6509 Airport Rd., Mississauga Ont. Canada L4V 1S7
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