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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: os/2 2.1 beta - my 2 cents worth
- Keywords: os2 beta
- Message-ID: <agLqXB8w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:08:09 CST
- References: <1993Jan20.211840.6683@board8.uucp>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- gah@board8.uucp (Gregg Hungerford) writes:
-
- > Some observations about the 2.1 beta:
- > It looks nice, like the improvements are worth waiting for but it's too
- > buggy for me. The windows 3.1 looked good but I crashed it a couple of times.
- > The multimedia thing didn't behave at all (I have soundblaster 2.0). Perhaps
- > I missed something somewhere, but I still had 16 glorious colors (I have
- > 16 million working on windows 3.1 - a cirrus avga3 card).
- > I also finally discovered why NOT to use hpfs. The multimedia drivers
- > crashed the system during the os2 boot. I couldn't access the hpfs partition
- > from my dos/windows partition, so I couldn't remove the drivers and had
- > to start over from scratch. Anyone know any other recovery?
- >
- Boot from floppy. Then use the floppy to do a chkdsk on the harddrive.
- that will load the HPFS works, then you can access your hpfs partitions.
-
- if the chkdsk doesn't work, then try chkdsk /f:3
-
- I do it whenever I'm trying new things and have to remove them for crash
- reasons.
-
- Note: this was with 2.0. If 2.1 is not bootable then use your 2.0 boot
- disks and see what happens.
-
- Greg
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