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- From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: HELP! OS/2 just committed suicide!!
- Date: 5 Sep 1992 04:31:06 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Distribution: world
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- I was just running CPBACKUP in one window while reading NEWS in another,
- when everything died, apparently when CPBACKUP started to format the diskette.
- The mouse cursor vanished, and although the screen display was intact,
- nothing was updating, and I couldn't get a "not responding" window to pop
- up or reboot with C-A-D
-
- So I switched off. When I switched on, it tried to boot (after about 5 minutes
- of whirring), but couldn't find lots of files. I switched off again, booted
- from a floppy, and ran CHKDSK on my (HPFS) drive C:
-
- Well, all my files seemed to be intact, except for my OS2 directory. This
- has disappeared, but under a new directory called FOUND.000 or something
- similar were about three other subdirectories called DIR0001.CHK etc
- which seemed to contain most of the original OS/2 directory, plus a few
- odd files. I tried to copy to the OS/2 directory, but it hung again in the
- process. Oh well, I'll try on Tuesday.
-
- This is a total pain. It looks like my best bet will be to reinstall OS/2,
- but it looks like I should at least be able to save my desktop, OS2.INI,
- WIN.INI etc before I do so. However, I've never had the entire operating
- system wiped out under MSDOS, and it's not as though I was even
- trying to do anything unreasonable or obviously risky.
-
- This is as much as anything just to let off steam, also to warn about using
- CPBACKUP under OS/2. Does anyone have any suggestions about
-
- 1) How to run CPBACKUP (and other programs such as PCTOOLS format that
- want to get close to your disks) safely? It crashes completely unless
- I INCLUDE D0000-D7FFF, the memory area used by my IBM SCSI controller
- (though I don't know why this should matter), but it clearly isn't too
- safe after what just happened
-
- 2) What I need to keep a copy of before I reinstall OS/2 to ensure I keep
- all my customizations
-
- 3) A good OS/2 backup program/tape drive that will handle HPFS, long names,
- extended attributes etc. I'll be getting FTP Software's TCP/IP package soon.
- Will I be able to use this reliably to back up my disk to a workstation?
-
- Thanks for listening. I was just getting to feel comfortable with OS/2...
-
- Richard Stanton
-