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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstallation, SYS005 Errors
- Keywords: reinstall
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.221104.28756@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:11:04 GMT
- References: <roelle.714160655@uars_mag>
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- In article <roelle.714160655@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
- >2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
- ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
- > "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".
-
- Big mistake! You deleted all the extended attributes, but you didn't
- clear the FAT flags that OS/2 uses to indicate the presence of EA's.
- So, OS/2 thinks the file has EAs, but it can't load them. Your only
- solution now is to reformat the partition.
-
- >2. All icons for migrated MS Windows applications in the Windows folder
- >look alike -- like windows. Although they were migrated from MSW 3.1,
- >and hence won't run, in my previous OS2 installation they maintained their
- >regular Windows icon appearance (e.g. Calc looked like a calculator).
-
- The migration process reads the icon from the app and stores it in
- EAs. You deleted the EAs, so OS/2 can't find them. So it takes the
- generic Windows icon - the window.
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