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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:37:05 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Questions (probably already asked and answered)...

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In <3F78FD2D.1030003@comcast.net>, on 09/29/03
at 07:45 PM, Martin Rosenfeld said:

>I used FDISK when I should not have.

If you used the OS/2 FDISK and you don't have any JFS partitions, what you
can try is:

- boot your eCS CD.
- drop to the command line
- find and run VCU
- run LVM /NEWMBR, just to be safe

This should recover what FDISK wiped out, but no guarantees.

If you used some other OS's FDISK, dfsee is probably your only choice.

>>>(excuse me)
>>
>>Why?
>>
>There are a few programs I want to use that won't run in eCS: Palm

Improper snippage on my part. I was referring only the the (excuse me).
Very few OS/2 users don't run one or more of Win95 or newer. I can count
the ones I know on one hand.

>I did install them on Drive 3 (by unplugging Drives 1 & 2), but I could

That's OK if you want to run them only with drives 1&2 unplugged. If so,
you should have said so.

HTH,

Steven

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