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In article <1993Jan22.221958.26657@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
>
>Hello all.  Has anyone else noticed that since installing 2.1b, certain
>DOS programs can't recognize the HD anymore?  Specifically, F-Prot, the
>latest version available on wuarchive nor reports "Error reading Drive X"
>as soon as you try to scan the drive, whereas before it used to work like
>a charm.  This is really annoying.
>
>I have found the 2.1b to be extremely unstable.  It locks up exiting full
>screen windows apps about 50% of the time and CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK now do
>nothing but freeze the machine.  Booting from a DOS VDM hangs the entire
>machine also, if you try to use UMBs (by including a DOS=high,umb) in
>the config.sys. 
>

This was happening to me quite frequently and I had the same notion you
did, in fact I was about ready to go back to Windoze! (say it isn't so :-))

Thanks to helpful hints from this forum (don't set DELDIR in
config.sys!) I now have a quite stable 2.1b going. Here is a tip of my
own. Boot from the install disk and get to the A: prompt. Run chkdsk
/f on your system (its on the 3rd disk).

If *any* errors show up from chkdsk, especially cross-linked
attributes make sure you fix them. I do that by creating a temporary
directory. Copying the errant file or directory to the temporary
directory and then deleting the original. Run chkdsk again to see if
the errors are fixed. Then copy back to the original. Do this one at a
time until all the errors are fixed.

I believe many of my problems were related to installing over GA+SP
and then reinstalling several times.  The extended attributes got
screwed up and I was unable to access some files in a DOS VDM. I
believe this is all stated in the FAQ but worth repeating for those
just trying out OS/2 on this wide release beta.

-- 
Mark Coverdill                                 The Ohio State University
Internet: markc+@osu.edu                              Columbus, Ohio