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SYS1311: The system files are missing

Started by eilygre, 2012.01.05, 23:02:30

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eilygre

I have trouble when trying to install eCS 2.1 on a new volume. It is a long story with trouble, but at the end  I managed to get the installation program to propose and accept a volume, FAT32, as the installation volume. But I wanted to format it as a JFS partition. After 2-3 sec. the Format program displays the message: SYS0528: The specified disk did not finish formating.  SYS1311: The system files are missing.
I have eCS 2.0 running on the computer, and here I can write to the partition, read from it and so on, but also when trying to format it from 2.0 I get the same message.
Can anybody tell me what to do?

sXwamp

Download and check your disk with Dfsee:  http://www.dfsee.com

Greggory

Pete

Hi Ivan

A possible workaround: Delete the FAT32 volume then recreate it using LVM.

Alternatively as Greggory suggests install dfsee and find out why you are having problems. My guess is the partition information is corrupt in some way.

Regards

Pete

ivan

Hi Pete,  You got the wrong person ;)

I do agree with what you say about eilygre 's problem.

eilygre, OS/2, eCS  does not read/write fat32 natively and has never been able to format it.  It will install on a fat32 partition with a lot of problems, as you have found.

Your best approach to solving the problem is to get an evaluation copy of DFSee - on hobbes - and use that to delete the partition and then recreate it as an HPFS partition.  You should then find that your eCS install will see it and you should then be able to install as normal.

ivan

eilygre

My intention was to format it as JFS volume. Normally I can select to format or reformat a volume to JFS or HPFS whatever was there before. This time I could not and as I could write to and read from it I still don't understand why. Anyway I first would try Pete's method as that was the simplest - and it worked. After rebooting I could format the partition and install eCS 2.1.
Thank you Pete.