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Messages - Tommy in Scotland

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Hi Pete,
well I'm not sure as all this cloning is fairly new to me. EASEUS DiskCopy 2.3 is freeware and it is downloaded as an iso file, which creates a boot CD. The program on the CD simply transfers all data from the source partition to the destination partition (including the boot-sector), which means it is non OS-specific... or at least that's what I was led to believe. One user commented that it should be able to copy Linux drives just as effectively as it is simply a drive-sector replication utility.

The boot CD has a flashy GUI which guides you in a basic way through the process. One thing I may have made an error on... after making the copy, the EASEUS GUI then told me to reboot (ensuring that only one bootable drive was still connected on startup), and when the system went down to reboot I switched off in order to remove the source drive, then switched back on in order to remove the CD and boot to the clone. Since the EASEUS said "Press any key to reboot", I'm wondering if I should have let it reboot then with both drives and the CD in place?

When I then connected the source drive and booted it, it immediately ran chkdsk, so I'm wondering if DiskCopy has done anything to the original drive while copying it? Having said that, it is working perfectly. Only the clone does not boot. I'm anxious to sort this as I'd like to use both OS/2 drives in different machines.

I may try another attempt tomorrow following the CD's reboot instruction more closely... I must say, the entire copying process from a 545MB drive to a 4.3GB drive went very quickly on my 400MHz Celeron PC.

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Setup & Installation / Newly cloned hard drive doesn't boot
« on: 2009.03.30, 23:29:52 »
This evening I cloned my OS/2 Warp 3.0 hard drive using EASEUS DiskCopy 2.3, however the clone does not boot. The white "OS/2" block never appears. I have used a Windows 95 Startup disc to verify (using fdisk) that the primary partition is set as active. Using the DOS prompt on the Win95 floppy, I have done a quick DIR /p of the clone and I see no obvious errors. EASEUS DiskCopy is supposed to make the clone of a bootable hard drive bootable. Can anyone suggest what may have gone wrong? I have removed the original drive so there cannot be a boot conflict. Also I have booted successfully to the original OS/2 drive using the same jumper settings and same IDE and power connectors.

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Hi Ivan and Greggory,
thank you for your input. To answer the question of how I did the migration, all I did was uplift the hdd and transplant it. I wasn't convinced it would even boot in the new machine, but after some careful experimentation (blind flailing around, that is) I got to VGA mode and then reinstalled the Matrox G400. I was lucky enough to have a Matrox installation CD lying around. Unfortunately my CD ROM drive does not show up in Warp, so I copied the relevant OS/2 driver files from the CD to a floppy disc, copied them into a folder on the Warp PC, and installed the G400 drivers from a folder. I now have 1024x768 and true colour on my Warp 3 PC. So my call for help was more of a sudden panic!

However.... my Windows 3.11fw subsystem has now developed comically large title bars and control buttons! With my Trident 9440, which was set at 1024x768 with 256 colours, it looked perfect, so I'm not sure how this has come about. Any clues on this? Should I reinstall Windows?

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I migrated my OS/2 Warp installation from the Elonex P166 to the Celeron 400 this evening, but the new PC system seems to have thrown the installation a bit. First I tried it with the Matrox G400 video card already present in the Celeron 400 PC, but when I booted it my monitor said "VGA mode not support". I then moved the Trident 9440 PCI graphics card (which had the drivers installed in OS/2) from the Elonex to the Celeron. I booted the system up and got nothing except a nice bright turquoise screen. No icons or mouse arrow. Is there a safe mode or VGA mode I can boot into? If so, I might be able to try the Matrox again.

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Setup & Installation / Re: My Warp 3 PC, under development
« on: 2009.02.22, 22:21:56 »
OK Fahrvenugen, thank you for your information. Are the fixpaks cumulative like Windows Service Packs? So I don't have to install loads of fixpaks on hundreds of floppy discs...

I hope to get onto the project over the next week, and hopefully bring new life to my Warp 3.0 system. I may install the Windows Win32 program in my Win/OS2 subsystem. That way I hope to get a few more Windows programs running on it, and I also hope to get the latest OS/2 versions of Open Office and Firefox to run on it, which would be great. In order to install anything, however, I must get access to my CD ROM drive... so none of my goals will be achieved in a great hurry.

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Setup & Installation / My Warp 3 PC, under development
« on: 2009.02.19, 20:48:23 »
Some time ago I installed Warp 3 on an old Elonex Pentium 166MHz PC, together with Windows 3.11fw plus some old OS/2 office apps I was lucky enough to find on ebay. I only did all this as an experiment, but I like the system and I would like to develop it much further. I am hoping to migrate the installation onto a vacant Celeron 700 system in the next two weeks. There have been problems however. My installation refuses to recognise a second hard drive or a CD ROM drive. Regardless of whether or not there is a CD in the drive, OS/2 does not see the drive. The same effect occurred when I installed a second hard drive in the system, although that was so long ago I cannot remember how the extra drive was formatted. OS/2 would not see the second hard drive.

I intend to keep working on this system over the next few weeks and hopefully develop it into a practical, working PC. I intend to upgrade the video card/driver, install a PCI network card with TCP/IP, and install some worthwhile software so I can actually use the PC, particularly with access to my hard-wired LAN and maybe even the Internet. To this end, I would like to have Odin or a good Win32 interface. I went onto the Netlabs Odin site and looked up Odin, but the most recent build I could find was early 2005. Are there newer builds available? Where can I find one and which is the most stable?

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