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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Martin Iturbide on February 16, 2021, 08:13:28 pm

Title: Create OS/2 image of a HDD
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 16, 2021, 08:13:28 pm
Hi

I need some suggestions to create an OS/2 Warp 3 image of a IDE HDD drive. The partition it is on HFPS format.

What I would like to do is to remove the IDE HDD from the old machine, plug it to a different machine (with Windows or OS/2) and extract the image of that HDD from there.

I know DFSee can do that , but I don't have too much experience with it.

Are there any other techniques or software to take that HDD (HPFS partiton) image that you recommend? (Window and/or OS/2).

Regards

Regards
Title: Re: Create OS/2 image of a HDD
Post by: Dave Yeo on February 16, 2021, 08:30:52 pm
Being Warp v3, most any disk cloning software should work as long as you keep the CHS boundaries when you restore it.
Perhaps a live CD with gparted, which last time I used it, did have a setting for keeping CHS boundaries.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php (https://gparted.org/livecd.php)
Title: Re: Create OS/2 image of a HDD
Post by: Neil Waldhauer on February 17, 2021, 04:38:58 am
I would plug the Warp 3 drive into an OS/2 computer and zip each drive into its own zip file. That is assuming the drives are reasonably small, which Warp 3 drives usually are.

Then you can unzip the file to the freshly formatted drive on a new computer. As long as you format with the same file system, it will boot, but if not, SYSINSTX x: is your friend.

This even works to make a Warp 3 virtual machine, assuming you have some bootable OS/2 image, like an ArcaOS installation .ISO file.