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- From: Heiderich@zel780.dnet.kfa-juelich.de (Manfred Heiderich)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: CHKDSK problem
- Message-ID: <Heiderich.11.722007547@zel780.dnet.kfa-juelich.de>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:39:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.182654.19521@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung
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- In article <1992Nov15.182654.19521@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- >Subject: CHKDSK problem
- >Date: 15 Nov 92 18:26:54 GMT
- >
- >Having got into a position of having to turn my machine off, as OS/2
- >was failing to respond, I found that CHKDSK was reporting errors every
- >time I started up. So, turning to the emergency boot section of
- >'Inside OS/2 2.0' I tried doing what they suggested:
- > starting from the installation disk
- > pressing ESC instead of Enter to get to the OS/2 command line
- > prompt
- > copying CHKDSK.COM from the hard drive (this was fun, there
- > isn't room on a 51/4 system disk I, so I had to delete a
- > printer01.sys file, but this was just a backup copy disk
- > anyway
- > entering CHKDSK D: /F at the prompt
- >
- >Unfortunately this doesn't work. I get a message telling me that the
- >disk is formatted with HPFS and that the HPFS file system has been
- >started, then the prompt again. If I try running CHKDSK from D: it
- >tells me, of course, that drive D is locked by another user, but it is
- >trying to do *something*, whereas running it freom A: doesn't seem to
- >do *anything* - even without the /F.
- >
-
- The problem occurs because UHPFS.DLL has to exist on the same diskette as
- CHKDSK or ...(you can read the procedure in the online command-reference).
- Hope this helps,
- Manfred
-