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From: Mahoney@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: What to do with HPFS?
Message-ID: <336.27FF5A8E@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 7 Apr 91 17:36:54 GMT
Organization: The Emerald Isle BBS, Tucson, AZ (602) 749-8638
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 DF> Ignore it until there is aN HPFS driver for dos so you can repair
 DF> files if OS/2 crashes and won't reboot. Have you tried reinstalling
 DF> all of OS/2 because the file system gets damaged and OS/2 won't 
 DF> boot?

  Re-loading all of OS/2 isn't necessary. You can add the autocheck parameter to the IFS statement to automatically check the drives on re-boot. I have several machines, including servers, that are all HPFS and have never had an unrecoverable disk drive. Even in the case that you describe, you can boot the OS/2 install disk and at the logo screen ESC to the A: prompt, put in diskette 1 and type chkdsk c: and it will recover the damaged HPFS volume.

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