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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ucf1vm!cop80196
- Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
- Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 19:34:46 EST
- From: Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92324.193446COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Eunexpected DOS error: 5
- References: <1992Nov19.091159.6630@hemlock.cray.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.091159.6630@hemlock.cray.com>, nic@cypress14.cray.com (Nic
- Catrambone) says:
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- > Hello,
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- > After a fresh install of OS/2 2.0 (GA), all my window and native DOS
- > applications fail with
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- > APPLICATION ERROR
- > Unexpected DOS error: 5
- >
- > Any clues ??? Is this message documented somewhere ? Please help, Bert.
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- > nic
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- Did you ever have os/2 on your system prior to this? A common problem is
- deleting os/2 with dos, and then going back and reinstalling os/2. This
- causes problems becaue the dos delete calls are not "ea aware" and you
- end up having a lot of garbage as a result. In any event, I would definitely
- boot up from floppy and run chkdsk against your os/2 partition. You must
- run chkdsk from a partition other than the one that contains os/2 (or from
- floppy)
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- Hope this helps.
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