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- From: jfarley@eis.calstate.edu (John Roger Farley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Second IDE drive
- Message-ID: <BzxL87.D7x@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:40:54 GMT
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
- Lines: 56
-
- Recently I bought a second IDE drive for my system. My
- original drive was a Seagate 1144a 130mb. The new drive is
- a Seagate 3144a 130mb.
-
- Originally the first drive had three partitions on it. Boot
- Manager, DOS 5.0 FAT, and OS/2 HPFS. The FAT was designated
- C: and D: was used for the HPFS. OS/2 had been installed on
- the HPFS and all references in the setup were for the D:
- drive.
-
- To check out the new drive I installed it as the only hard
- drive and formatted it by using DOS 5.0. Then I installing
- it as the second drive and set the jumpers for it to be the
- slave. Upon starting the system I found the following
- setup:
-
- drive1 BM, C:FAT, E:HPFS(OS/2 system)
- drive2 D:
-
- Naturally OS/2 would not start since the config.sys was
- looking for the system to be installed on D:.
-
- Using the original installation disks, the third of which
- was modified with the post service pack HPFS fix, I booted
- the OS/2 system and proceeded to format the second drive as
- HPFS. I referenced the system files installed on my first
- drive to do the formatting.
-
- At this point I was not sure what to do so I played around
- with FDISK. The net result was that the drive letters were
- changed so that the following resulted without the loss of
- any data:
-
- drive1 BM, C:FAT, D:HPFS(OS/2 system)
- drive2 E:HPFS
-
- The system now started. But not willing to leave well
- enough alone my new goal was to make the first drive all FAT
- and my second drive all HPFS which would contain the OS/2
- system. My goal was to do this without loosing my
- configuration. I decided to use XCOPY, FDISK and then
- reformat my first drive. It worked! My current setup looks
- like this:
-
- drive1 BM, C:FAT
- drive2 D:HPFS(OS/2 system)
-
- I was surprised that XCOPY with the appropriate command
- line switches would do the job. I have read so much about
- extended attributes with respect to the Work Place Shell
- that I was expecting to have some problems. Everything is
- working perfectly!
-
-
- John R. Farley
- jfarley@eis.calstate.edu
-