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#1
Utilities / Re: rescue tools
2009.07.17, 15:34:58
Quote from: RobertM on 2009.06.21, 23:53:18
Another option is to install something like eZip, and use that to extract single files from RAR or ZIP files (it runs pretty much just like the WPS folder classes or Windows' built in Zip Viewer folders).

Robert


Thanks!  I'll try that.  It looks promising.
#2
Utilities / Re: rescue tools
2009.06.21, 19:56:34
Thanks, jep.  I even have DFsee and had used it to verify that the disk was still OK, but could not figure out how to use it to extract the files.  Unfortunately, I saw your post after the re-format.  (Arrgh!)

And why not reformat?  I had a trusty backup that was only a few days older than the day this problem started.  Now I find that the backup is also corrupted.  The CD is only readable by RSJ, no other computers or software (that I know of).  Furthermore, the two most important zip files I cannot extract due to a cyclic redundancy error.

Is there a way to get around this?  Is there a way to attempt extraction of a single file within a Zip archive in OS/2?  I know how to do this in Windoze with tools like WinRar, but since I am limited to OS/2 for this recovery, I'm stuck. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Garmit
#3
Utilities / Re: rescue tools
2009.06.07, 13:59:03
Quote from: Garmin on 2009.05.17, 23:27:14

I >cannot< boot from the OS/2 CDs

Garmin
That includes eCS CDs. 
Nevertheless, with this group's help- especially Ivan, I now can boot to the HPFS partition on the HDD.  I was able to install & run the registered version of Jrescuer.  It failed with inode errors.  The developers of Jrescuer at ecomstation.ru responded quickly to my first request for help, but since that also failed with a different inode error, they have been silent.

Sooooo... I am about to the point where I reformat the partition and start over.  Any last-minute suggestions before I do this?

Thanks again to all for the previous suggestions.

Garmit
#4
Utilities / Re: rescue tools
2009.05.17, 23:27:14

Editing the config.sys file was exactly the thought I had as well.  Unfortunately, I >cannot< boot from the OS/2 CDs (only Linux or DOS).  If they can write to an HPFS partition, I don't know how to do it.

I got out some old OS/2 boot floppies from 2001.  The boot process made it through the first 2 disks, then crashed on the third at which point the screen displayed a message stating OS/2 couldn't operate my HDD or diskette drives while the machine emitted a continual beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

I have a registered Jrescuer, but no way to use it until I can get to a command prompt.

Garmin
#5
Utilities / Re: rescue tools
2009.05.17, 14:44:58
Ivan,

You're probably right about the FP.  I pulled that from (my) memory.  Frankly, I haven't had to do anything to this machine for over 6 years, so I only know it was 4.52+. 

I did register my jrescuer, but of course still have not had an opportunity to try it because I can't boot the machine.  Booting works if I use Linux or DFSee CD's and I can see that the HPFS partitions (eCS & Warp 4.52+) are OK.  However, the JFS has that overwritten spot... Hmmm, I wrote down the sectors, but can't find that scrap of paper now.

I'd also forgotten that I also had an eCS 1.2 partition on this machine.  It hangs during an Alt-F1 + F2 boot at the "Loading I20SOSM.ADD" stage.  I'm not sure if this is useful information, because I don't remember if this ever booted.  I only use the Warp partition(s).

(Boot blob) Alt-F1 + F2 at bootup doesn't work for Warp, because it still tries to chkdsk the JFS.

Thanks for your patience.  Family & job have taken away the time I spent fiddling with computers, so I don't remember much.

Garmin
#6
Utilities / rescue tools
2009.05.10, 21:28:23
I've been using OS/2 since 1992.   I currently run Warp 4.52 FP15 on an AMD machine with 2 GB RAM. 

A BKAC error caused 1.9 MB of my 40 GB JFS partition to be overwritten.  I have Jrescuer, but can't install it because now the machine won't boot at all because CHKDSK hangs.  (I've left it O/N and it's still doing the ...|... thing.)  I've tried booting to CD, but that also hangs saying it can't read disk or diskette.  I then put in the Install disk 0 with the CD.  Then it hung complaining that it couldn't find a:\country.sys.

I'd like to edit CONFIG.SYS to rem out the CHKDSK line, but I'm stuck as to how to do that.  I could boot to FreeDOS, but I'd need a text editor that could read/write to HPFS.  I've ordered DFSee, but it would really help to get this resolved ASAP.  Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to play with the computer (that's why I have OS/2- reliability).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Garmit