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From: wongkc@sor.CS.ColoState.Edu (K. C. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: OS/2 from floppy DOES NOT see HPFS drive C.
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Date: 16 Mar 90 04:16:25 GMT
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Reply-To: wongkc@sor.CS.ColoState.Edu (K. C. Wong)
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Well, I just tried booting OS/2 from a floppy.  I have
an HPFS C: drive  and a FAT D: drive.

Despite the fact that the HPFS driver is loaded (at least
the message comes up), escaping to a command prompt at
the initial screen and typing

    [A:\] DIR C:

gives the message:

    Incorrect internal file identifier.

Typing, on the other hand,

    [A:\] DIR D:

gives a correct listing of the files on that drive.

So the 5 dollar question is, why doesn't OS/2 recognize its own
HPFS partition?  The only answers I've seen on the net say,
"It SHOULD recognize the HPFS partition".  However, I can vouch
from experience that it doesn't.