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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Subject: Deleting HPFS partitions using DOS tools
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.153459.15045@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: (Was: Re: How to "register" new hardware with OS/2?)
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <burleigh.721859932@ogre> <1992Nov16.024535.25041@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov16.131302.22337@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:34:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.131302.22337@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
- ...
- >booting from floppy (OS/2 install and then disk 1) and running the fdisk
- >that is on disk 1. All your problems should disappear. Again, don't try
- >to mess with your HPFS partitions using DOS fdisk, you're just going to
- >end up pulling your hair out. So don't come crying to me when you are bald.
-
- I won't. However, I still gotta ask "Why is this so?"
-
- I can understand (DOS) FDISK being weird about it, but what I do not
- understand is why EDPART can't do the trick. And, in particular, why
- EDPART returns with a "Controller error". What *does* OS/2 *do* to the
- disk and/or controller, to make it inaccessible to DOS tools?
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