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- From: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstall
- Message-ID: <23260.689.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 16:53:00 GMT
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- Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
- Reply-To: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty)
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- DC. In article <roelle.714160655@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Ro
- DC. >2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
- DC. ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
- DC. > "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".
- DC.
- DC. Big mistake! You deleted all the extended attributes, but you didn't
- DC. clear the FAT flags that OS/2 uses to indicate the presence of EA's.
- DC. So, OS/2 thinks the file has EAs, but it can't load them. Your only
- DC. solution now is to reformat the partition.
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- What would be nice is a utility I can run under DOS which will clear all
- of the FAT flags and start tabula rasa without reformatting the partition.
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- Regards, Mikey
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- . JABBER v1.2 #42 . Gotta run, the cat's caught in the printer.
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