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Article #79Re: Hard Drive won't boot after OS/2 Install from tape/cartridge
From: Keith Bennett
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00
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>Since you are restoring onto a newly formatted drive, you have to initialize >the OS/2 boot records, as most back/restore programs only back up files (and >hopefully, extended attributes), and NOT the boot sector. > >With DOS, you would do "SYS C:" to have DOS copy its critical boot and system >files to the partition. In OS/2, the Command is "SYSINSTX C:". The problem was solved by low-level formatting the drive. I never needed to run SYSINSTX. Perhaps Boot Manager created the right boot sector when I chose to add the partition to the BM menu. Thanks for your advice. - Keith -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Bennett Bennett Business Solutions, Inc. Silver Spring, MD USA OS/2 & DOS Software Development kbennett@cpcug.org (301) 871-7696
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