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- From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Subject: Re: HPFS drive inaccessable...so I can't boot. AAIIEEE!
- Message-ID: <12SEP199219201991@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Summary: HPFS big nasty system crash Can't boot, chkdsk
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- Organization: Texas A&M University
- References: <1992Sep12.053049.24032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:20:00 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Sep12.053049.24032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, imp@macbeth.Berkeley.EDU (Imp) writes...
- >The last time I ran OS/2, shutdownm wouldn't work. Since it hadn't caused
- >problems before, I just powered off the system. When I powered back on,
- >OS/2 couldn't read drive D:, which is HPFS and had most of my system on it.
- >Now I can't boot OS/2; it gives a "can't access device" error, and says I
- >need to run chkdsk /F on D:, which I can't do unless I can boot...Is there
- >any way to fix this short of reinstalling OS/2 on a different system? I
- >really don't want to bother, since when I came up here for college I didn't
- >bother bringing the install disks with me (sound of head banging on wall).
- >
- >I'm running OS/2 on a 486/33 with 16mb of ram and a 200+ meg hard drive,
- >partitioned into 45/45/110, of which only D: is HPFS...if any of that makes
- >a difference....
- >
- >HELP!
- >
-
- You may not need to reinstall OS/2 but you will need the installation
- diskettes. Boot the machine with the installation diskette and press
- ESC at the blue intro screen. This will give you a command prompt from
- which you can run chkdsk. The chkdsk program should be on the first or
- second program diskette.
-
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- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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