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- From: guidry@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Guidry)
- Subject: Re: How to "register" new hardware with OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.190020.11745@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov15.174823.9254@midway.uchicago.edu> <burleigh.721859932@ogre> <1992Nov16.024535.25041@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:00:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.024535.25041@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <burleigh.721859932@ogre> burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:
- >>>of it. Is there some way to restore the drive to the factory condition,
- >>>or do I have to take it back to the store? (I was able to re-install
- >>>OS/2 on the drive, seemingly w/o problems, but I may at some point
- >>>decide to trash OS/2 entirely, and I'd hate to have to trash the drive
- >>>as well)
- >
- >It was created as an HPFS. The issue is not whether I can access it
- >from a DOS session (that is a trivial question). The issue is that when
- >I boot a DOS floppy and run FDISK, FDISK hangs for a long time and then
- >reports that it cannot access the disk. It then becomes impossible to
- >delete the OS/2 partitions and/or setup DOS partitions, since the disk
- >is utterly inaccesible to FDISK (although FDISK knows it is there).
- >When I ran the PD util EDPART, it reports a controller error on the disk.
-
- This is documented in the PRINTED docs that came with OS/2 2.0 (remember
- those little "worthless" booklets?). You must unpartition the drive with
- OS/2's FDISK because DOS's FDISK just won't understand the wierd stuff on
- the drive. Once you remove the HPFS partitions with OS/2's FDISK (you can
- boot from the install diskettes and it will put you right into FDISK), you
- can use DOS's FDISK to partition the drives as you wish.
-
- >Another poster suggested using OS/2 to change it from an HPFS to a FAT,
- >then using DOS FDISK (or, I assume, EDPART) to blow the partitions away.
- >That sounds like it might work... Still, it was rather scary to get
- >controller errors on this (brand new) disk.
-
- It would work since it is gonna be blown away anyway... but it is really
- silly, just blow away the partition information altogether and start from
- scratch.
-
- >(Also, I do understand that FDISK itself will not blow the partitions
- >away, since it prefers to leave non-DOS partitions alone. EDPART has no
- >such qualms, however...)
-
- that is DOS's FDISK won't touch them... OS/2's FDISK will happily nuke it.
-
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