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Hardware / Advice needed please
« on: 2007.09.19, 22:32:08 »
Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and to OS/2 so please go easy on me :-)
I have an IBM PC750 running OS/2 Warp from a 1 gig hard drive. I am trying to clone the drive to a newer 3 gig drive for preventative measure due to the age of the current drive. The new drive is good as it checks out with Spinrite. The clone is successful, but when I install the new drive it boots to "OS/2 !! SYS03147" Which after some searching I find to mean the os2ldr.msg file is invalid.
How can this be? Is it possible the OS/2 installation is dependent on the drive geometry and thus will not work on a new drive with different cyl/head/sectors than the installation drive? Otherwise I cannot guess why a clone would not work.
Thanks for any info!
Gary
I have an IBM PC750 running OS/2 Warp from a 1 gig hard drive. I am trying to clone the drive to a newer 3 gig drive for preventative measure due to the age of the current drive. The new drive is good as it checks out with Spinrite. The clone is successful, but when I install the new drive it boots to "OS/2 !! SYS03147" Which after some searching I find to mean the os2ldr.msg file is invalid.
How can this be? Is it possible the OS/2 installation is dependent on the drive geometry and thus will not work on a new drive with different cyl/head/sectors than the installation drive? Otherwise I cannot guess why a clone would not work.
Thanks for any info!
Gary