From: LightSide (robertm_at_az.com)
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 16:31:31 EDT
Hello again,
Once again, I have lost my data on the harddrive after getting both OS/2 and Win95 installed and configured.
It works great for about a day or two then it just loses the whole thing. Just sits there with that sickening blank
screen and the cursor up in the top corner.
At one time I had just DOS and OS/2 on the laptop and it did the same thing. Except in that case, it just lost
the entire entry table on the OS/2 partition and chkdsk found lost directories and stuff but nothing that would
help recover it. I've tried all primaries (OS/2 's fdisk allows that upto 4), one primary and one logical.
I have on my tower computer simular setups (multiple OS's controlled by Boot Manager) and I have never
had the system just lose access to an entire partition let alone OS. I've tried putting boot manager at the
begining and the end of freespace when I start and nothing seems to change. Maybe a week of use before it
just eats it.
If a harddrive is going bad, would that do that? I'm totally scratching my head on this one. Anyone know of
utilities (besides the startup ones on the thinkpad) that will test a 365XD's harddrive? Maybe it's giving up
ship. =(
Robert
Robert Mears
Certified Key and Button Pusher
robertm_at_az.com
OS/2 Warp v4: Because you deserve more than an os designed for games
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