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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:20:26 PST8
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility diskettes hanging up

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Hi Wayne
Todays OS/2 files are quite big to fit on diskettes !

Why don't you prepare a small bootable Maintenance Partition
and install BootOS2 ??

It's more comfortable and faster to use and easier to get it running ;-)
Cheers, svobi

waynec@linkline.com on 20/01/2004 04:57:11
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Utility diskettes hanging up

I have a problem with a FAT16 partition, and when I tried to address
the
issue by running chkdsk /f I got a message saying the partition is in
use by
another program (nothing running at the time).

So, I thought I'd boot OS/2 from diskettes and use chkdsk from the
utility
diskettes. These are the diskettes I custom built last June when I was
in
the midst of my "40 gb hard drive" problems. I made some minor changes
to
those diskettes in December, and I'm pretty certain I checked them out
then... in fact I remember running my newly-acquired dfsee program with
OS/2
running from those diskettes.

I have the same hardware configuration I had in June, except that I've
added
a SanDisk smartmedia reader (that was added well before I tweaked the
diskettes in December).

Anyway, now the diskette boot hangs up on the third diskette (DISK2)
after
it displays the hard drive adapters info screen (IDE and SCSI, looks
normal)
and starts loading drivers. It hangs with this list of loads on the
screen,
using either the June or the December diskette sets:

HPFS.IFS
\DOS.SYS
\MOUSE.SYS
\TESTCFG.SYS
CDFS.IFS
\OS2CDROM.DMD

Anybody have any ideas? What should I check?

Thanks, Wayne

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