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- From: js@gaaj.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: SUMMARY: Upgrading to HPFS from FAT
- Message-ID: <js.30.713710325@gaaj.uottawa.ca>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:52:05 GMT
- Sender: news@fisher.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing & Communications, Ottawa University
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-
- Hi,
- I while back, I asked the net if anyone could give me any hints on going
- from a FAT partition on my HD (170Meg) to the HPFS since I had upgraded my
- RAM from 5Meg to 8Meg. To be honest, I didn't get any usefull replies, so I
- decided to go at it anyways with my common sense. I am posting this now, so
- that others can do it better than I did, and not make the same mistakes.
-
- WHAT I DID:
- I had a tape backup that works via the parallel port, so I openned a DOS
- window and did the backup. It took 4 hours (for 125Meg) with over 40 files
- that couldn't be oppened, almost all in the /OS2/DLL directory.
- After that, I re-formated my HD for HPFS (one partition, again) and re-
- installed OS/2. After that, I did a restore (In a DOS window) with "don't
- overwrite existing files" option. Needless to say that I didn't have my old
- desktop, so I tried restoring all files anyways, except for the "uncopied"
- ones (I had written them down). That just ****ed everything up, so I
- installed OS/2 again and re-built my desktop from there.
-
-
- WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE TODAY, KNOWING ALL I KNOW NOW:
- I would have booted from DOS on a floppy to do the backup, that way all
- files, without exception would have been copied.
- I would have proceded to re-installing OS/2, but minimally (no options),
- and would have done a restore of the OS/2 specific files to an other
- directory. Then would have booted from floppy (the install and disk 1, then
- "ESC"); xcopied (with /s) all the files from the temporary directory to the
- OS/2 directories, to replace the minimally installed OS/2 with my backed-up
- copy. Then, re-booted and restored the rest of the tape.
-
-
- NOTES:
- Of course, if you only have a minimal hard disk (60meg?) you could
- always do a backup/restore to floppy using the OS/2 programs by booting from
- floppy each time, if you have enough disks (that's about 55 1.44Meg disks
- for a 60Meg HD that's full), that way, you wouldn't even have to re-install
- OS/2 at all.
-
- An other thing; I will eventually re-partition my HD with 35Meg OS/2
- HPFS boot partition, 20Meg DOS 5.0 FAT bootable and the rest HPFS data. The
- reason is simple, the 35Meg is in case OS/2 has to be re-installed; errors,
- upgrades, etc. and the 20Meg is for non OS/2 compatible software, or games
- that are just a bit too slow (like Wolfenstein 3D).
-
-
- Hope this helps anybody that's in the same situation.
- ---------
- Jean-Serge Gagnon e-mail: jsg8a@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
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