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- From: c145gmk@utarlg.uta.edu (Gordon M. Keegan)
- Subject: Re: FDISK does not set D: installable?
- Message-ID: <20NOV199216562536@utarlg.uta.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov17.084812.3055@kub.nl>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:56:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.084812.3055@kub.nl>, hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes...
- >Help! I cannot get OS/2 to install on D: anymore?!?
- >
- >My OS/2 system has been working for half a year now without any major
- >flaw. But last week the unexpected happened: my hard disk banged his
- >heads against the wall :-( So I tried to install the system again
- >and then I ran into trouble.
- >
- >I used to have a primary partition C: (20MB FAT) and an extended logical
- >partition D: (80MB HPFS) with a BootManager at the beginning of the
- >disk. The BM gave me the choice of DOS or OS/2, and from within OS/2 I
- >could still access the C: partition. (DOS on C:, OS/2 on D:).
- >
- >Unfortunately I cannot get this setup back again! FDISK won't let me set
- >a non-primary partition installable?!? I can only make two C: partitions
- >that thus cannot access eachother if I want to set the HPFS partition
- >installable.
- >
- >This has definitely worked before!
- >
- >Does anyone have any suggestions about what I am doing wrong this time?
- >
- >
- >Jeroen
-
-
- I have not been able to set a partition as installable by
- simply running FDISK in an OS/2 session. I was able to
- install on D: properly when going through the FDISK that
- runs during the install process, however. If that's already
- what you're trying, I'm afraid I'm not much help.
-
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