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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: FDISK LOST MY WHOLE DISK -- HELP PLEASE !!!
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 20:22:51 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Peter Forster (forster@chem.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
- : <stuff deleted>
- :
- : What's wrong here? Please help, I'm desperate (I've spent 2 days and 2 nights
- : with hardly any sleep just trying - reinstalling - trying - re.... )
- :
- I probably can't contribute to help you (the first response I've read to
- your request sounds more pertinent), but I had an experience that might
- help some (it might even help you). I can't remember how the problem
- started. I had a program fail or I did something stupid and then OS/2
- wouldn't boot. At that time I had GA + SP on it. I tried to re-install
- the SP, but to no avail, it reported some pretty strange errors. I was
- getting ready to install the GA with format when I thought of something.
- I ran chkdsk from the GA disks (booted install disk, ran second disk,
- escaped to cmd and from third disk ran chkdsk). It reported that there
- were errors on my boot drive (drive D on my single drive, multipartitioned
- ESDI disk system, it is a FAT disk). I ran chkdsk again with the /F
- parameter and it fixed several things and now I was up and running.
-
- At the time I looked back over what I had done to get into trouble (I
- can't remember what it was). There was nothing that happened that
- should have damaged my file system on drive D. But, of course, there
- was something but the connection still does not make sense to me.
-
- Moral: at least try chkdsk from the install disks before doing anything
- drastic like reformatting.
-