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From: ian@watson.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Installing 1.2 or 1.3
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.111441.15446@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:00:08 GMT
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In <1991Jun14.113032.11427@praxis.co.uk>, gavin@praxis.co.uk (Gavin Finnie) writes:
>
>
>I have a couple of questions about upgrading from OS/2 1.1 (SE).
>
>1. I currently running OS/2 1.1 and am planning to upgrade to 1.2 or 1.3.
>   Can I go straight to 1.3 or do I have to install 1.2 first?
>
>2. I would like to install HPFS, but would also like to retain my existing
>   files within the old filing system, transferring these selectively to
>   HPFS at my leisure.
>   Is there a way of installing 1.2 (or 1.3) that will allow me to do this?
>   (Yes, of course, I have backups of my existing files, but I'd rather not be
>   *forced* to resort to these)
>
>Gavin Finnie                             email:  gavin@praxis.co.uk
>Praxis Systems plc
>20 Manvers Street                        phone: +44-225-444700
>Bath BA1 1PX, England                    fax:   +44-225-465205

1.    As far as I am aware, you can go straight from 1.1 to 1.3.

2.    Converting from FAT to HPFS or vice versa requires a format of the
      partition.  Thus it is impossible to convert from one format to
      another without losing the data in the partition.  Some form of
      backup/restore is mandatory.  It is also impossible to "shrink" a
      partition dynamically.  You would have to delete the large partition
      and then reallocate as two smaller ones.  This also causes a total
      loss of all data.

Ian Stirling

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