OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Corrupt partition 0 error when trying to install eCS 1.2R on real hardware
			Alex Taylor:
			
			
--- Quote from: Jean-Yves on October 27, 2014, 03:26:07 pm ---
--- Quote ---Boot from the eComStation 1.2R CD-ROM and press Shift-F3 again to get a command prompt.
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At what stage of the eCS boot process should I do this - once I get into the graphical shell?
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Yes, once the graphical installer starts, Shift+F3 at any subsequent screen will open a command prompt.
		
			Jean-Yves:
			
			Thanks Alex
		
			Jean-Yves:
			
			Didn't work alas. Same error after running the VCU command (incidentally, I need to go to File->Expert Mode to get that option to show)
I'll stick with my VM for now despite it's laggy mouse problems and no USB!  :)  Then I'll keep an eye on what Mensys/ Xeu get up to up may well upgrade to 2.2 when that comes out and then try again then.  (Or I may just crack and get 2.1!!!)
		
			ivan:
			
			Don't give up yet, there is a way round it.
For some reason old Dell computers tend to have had problems when anyone wanted to change the windows OS to anything else.  My way of dealing with that is to use either a floppy, where they had floppy drives, or a bootable CD with DFSee on them. http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/download.php  The fact that they are DOS based makes no difference.
Boot from the floppy or CD and use DFSee to delete the partition on the disk (only problem with that is if you want to keep the windows version there) and then create the new partitions for eCS.
If you want to keep the windows that is there you need to first defrag that partition using windows tools then use DFSee to reduce the size of the windows partition to give you room for bootmanager (install with DFSee) and eCS (create partition with DFSee).
After that you should be able to install any version of eCS without problems.
		
			Jean-Yves:
			
			Thanks Ivan, I'll have one more go.  
I did actually delete the partition on my first attempt as I did not find the VCU option at first so tried various other things in desperation!  ;D But I only did this when I was at at the command prompt within the eCS installer. Maybe booting directly into DFSee would be better
Could you confirm the steps/settings I need to use. I think these should be:
1. Delete the existing partition
2. create new partition (to keep it simple I'll create one single partition)
3. Set the partition type (might be the wrong term) to eCS JFS (from memory: type 35?  There was also a type 7 I think that looked a possibility but I forget what it was)
4. Save then make the partition active and bootable 
5. Save and restart with eCS installer CD?
Do I need to fix the disk geometry, zero out leading disk space, rewrite MBR etc?
Again, many thanks. I really appreciate the great help from members of this forum.
		
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