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3 total messages Started by yyang Fri, 06 Jan 1995 20:44

#17663

Author: yyang
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 20:44

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	I have a IBM PS/Value point with OS/2 2.1 loaded as the only 
operating system.  There is a problem with the boot sector because error
messages "sys02025" and "sys02027" came up every time I turn the machine 
on.  I can not get anywhere from there.  I was able to break in using a 
DOS boot diskette because I'm using the FAT file system.  I can see all the
files and directories that way but I can not access them through OS/2.  I
tried "fdisk /mbr" through DOS.  I also tried booting up using OS/2 
installation 
diskette, escaping to a prompt, issuing command "sysinstx c:".  None of the
above worked.  When I did "chkdsk", I got an "data reading (CRC) error".  I'll
hate to reformat the hard drive and reload all the software again.  Installing
OS/2 with all those wonderful communication packages is not my favorite thing
to do.  All the data is still on the hard drive except that the boot sector is
corrupted.  I wonder if there is a way for me to recover the hard drive
without reformating it. I'd appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions about
what I should do.

Re: Boot sector

#17662

Author: Jack Tan
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 17:40

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yyang@access.digex.net (yyang) writes:

>All the data is still on the hard drive except that the boot sector is
>corrupted.  I wonder if there is a way for me to recover the hard drive
>without reformating it. I'd appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions about
>what I should do.

You might want to try GammaTech Utilities.  It has a comprehensive
suite of disk/file recovery applications.

-- 
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[TEAM OS/2]
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Re: Memory Management

#17664

Author: kellmeyer steven l
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 19:08

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yyang@access.digex.net (yyang) writes:

>	I have a IBM PS/Value point with OS/2 2.1 loaded as the only 
>operating system.  There is a problem with the boot sector because error
>messages "sys02025" and "sys02027" came up every time I turn the machine 
>on.  I can not get anywhere from there.  I was able to break in using a 
>DOS boot diskette because I'm using the FAT file system.  I can see all the
>files and directories that way but I can not access them through OS/2.  I
>tried "fdisk /mbr" through DOS.  I also tried booting up using OS/2 
>installation 
>diskette, escaping to a prompt, issuing command "sysinstx c:".  None of the
>above worked.  When I did "chkdsk", I got an "data reading (CRC) error".  I'll
>hate to reformat the hard drive and reload all the software again.  Installing
>OS/2 with all those wonderful communication packages is not my favorite thing
>to do.  All the data is still on the hard drive except that the boot sector is
>corrupted.  I wonder if there is a way for me to recover the hard drive
>without reformating it. I'd appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions about
>what I should do.

I got through a similar problem by re-installing Boot Manager (this assumes
you have Boot Manager on your system, of course). You only have to go through
the FDISK portion of the installation. Keep all the partitions the same, just
delete and re-create the Boot Manager partition, then drop out of the install
program after it gets created. Since you don't touch the other partitions,
they aren't affected by FDISK. Worked for me....

Steve
-- 
Steve Kellmeyer             kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
"It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die 
that you may live as you wish"           --Mother Theresa

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