I am on a show floor computer with a line behind me. This will be short.

Is that a 40G NTFS in front of W4?  That means you are trying to boot W4
>1024 (8G).

We have to go out and come in again.

Ray

---- jkrim{at}comcast.net wrote: 
> Ray,
> 
> I did some changes to the partitions so that a C: partition would
exist before my D: (Warp 4).  Here it is using DFSDOS:
> 
> ID	Dr	Description	           Ux	Format  Related	      
VolumeLabel	BM-Name	Size MiB
> 01 	 	Prim de DELL-Util	 1	FAT16 	Dell 8.0	DellUtility	 	                   78.4
> 02 	 	FreeSpace Wasted 	 	-- -- --	-- -- --	- - - - - -	 	            
           0.5
> 02 	C:	Prim 07 Inst-FSys	2	FAT32 	Win NT 	RECOVERY 	 	             2048.0
> 03>	 	Prim 07 Inst-FSys	 3	NTFS 	Win NT 	OS 	 	                    
         40959.9
> 04 	D:	Log 0e FAT16-Ext	5	FAT 	IBM 4.50	NO NAME 	 	          2047.3
> 05 	 	FreeSpace Logical	 	-- -- --	-- -- --	- - - - - -	 	            
               9.2
> 05 	E:	Log 0b FAT32 	           6	FAT32 	MSDOS5.0	DRIVE_E 	 	         
   14480.4
> 06 	F:	Log 0b FAT32 	           7	FAT32 	MSDOS5.0	DRIVE_F 	 	         
    31000.3
> 07 	G:	Log 0b FAT32 	          8	FAT32 	MSDOS5.0	DRIVE_G 	 	             31000.3
> 08 	H:	Log 0b FAT32 	          9	FAT32 	MSDOS5.0	DRIVE_H 	 	             31000.3
> 
> Unfortunately, this did not change the problem.  I still need to try
to "pause" experiment.
> 
> Jordan Krim
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Ray Davison 
> > jkrim{at}comcast.net wrote:
> > > I used  DFSee to clone the W2K wWarp 4.0 partition to the laptop.  It
> > > didn't work (OS/2 !! SYS01475). As I understand it, BootManager won't
> > > work with vista, so I am stuck with the Windows Bootloader which
> > > appears to work as OS/2 tries to boot, but never gets off the ground
> > > apparently due to the system files missing (according to the error
> > > message).  I agree with the drive letter assessment, but as I said, I
> > > have a chicken and egg problem in that I haven't got a clue if OS/2
> > > calls the Vista partition C: and the Warp 4.0 D: or assigns C: to the
> > > Warp 4.0 partition which of course would cause the "unable to
> > > operate".
> > 
> > I was afraid you might have Vista.  I was hoping you got lucky.  My wife 
> > is a teacher at a new school with all new equipment.  The computers are 
> > Dell.  The sticker says Vista, but the OS is EXP.  I have seen reports 
> > that MS is allowing vendors to back level.
> > 
> > I assume the DFSee listing you posted elsewhere is the W4 partition you 
> > tried to copy.  So it is installed as D.
> > 
> > How did you provide the space to copy the W4 partition to?
> > 
> > If you did a DFSee partition copy, my experience says you have all the 
> > files.  Boot Win and check.  Post a DFSee Display > Partition overview.
> > 
> > If all is in order, I would like to see what Acronis would do with that 
> > configuration.  It has been great at booting W2K and OS/2 from extended 
> > partitions.  I don't know about Vista.
> > 
> > Ray
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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