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- From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
- Subject: Re: c: drive fails, pc won't boot
- Message-ID: <tadr.715520984@mccoy>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <BtyqI7.6M6@unx.sas.com> <02SEP92.25768572.0030@vmxa.polymtl.ca>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:49:44 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In <02SEP92.25768572.0030@vmxa.polymtl.ca> $$$0@polytec1.polymtl.ca (Christian Robert) writes:
-
- >In article <BtyqI7.6M6@unx.sas.com> sasjrm@beatle.unx.sas.com (Jeff McDermott) writes:
- >>
- >>hello,
- >>
- >>we have a c: hpfs drive that does not completely
- >>boot up os/2 2.0 (it crashes after the os/2 logos appear)
- >>and booting from a: using the os/2 2.0 install diskette does not
- >>allow us to access the c: drive either.
- >>before i switch c: out for a new hard drive i was hoping that
- >>someone could tell me whether it is truly a disk problem
- >>or whether it is a controller problem or something related...
- >>
- >>thanx for any help!
- >>
- >>below are the messages i get under each booting sequence.
- >>
- >>1) when i boot from a: i get Internal identification error when
- >> i try to dir the c:
- >>
- >>
- >>2) when i try to boot from c: i get a system dump
- >>
- >>##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f.
- >>60000, 9084
- >>038600d1
- >>Internal revision 6.307 90/03/01
- >>
- >>any ideas?
-
- >After booting from drive A: insert diskette 2 and issue the following:
- >A> chkdsk c: /f
-
- Isn't that chkdsk c:/f:3 for hpfs ?
- I may be wrong (I'm at work now; os2 is at home)
-
- >It will surely help a lot in accessing the c: drive.
- >It may also (but not sure) solve your DUMP problem.
-
- >Xtian,
- >Poly.
-