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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: HPFS drive inaccessable...so I can't boot. AAIIEEE!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.001217.24041@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 00:12:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.053049.24032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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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....
-
- Read the OS/2 FAQ List, and follow the instructions on running CHKDSK
- from an OS/2 floppy boot. Should clear that problem right up.
-
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