BL> You are talking around in circles Paul. I know the data is
 BL> there... how do you access it?

 PE> What are you talking about? I've already explained the whole
 PE> scenario. I booted off OS/2 floppies, and I could still see my
 PE> data (by doing a "dir e:" from my floppy-booted OS/2). I then
 PE> decided to install OS/2 onto my E drive. It managed to load 7
 PE> disks, before crapping out and making all my data "disappear".
 PE> BFN. Paul. 

  It's a while since I tried to install OS/2, but as I understand it,
OS/2 runs chkdsk automatically and "corrects" any errors by running
fdisk. What I am saying is that if you installed OS/2 with LBA, on a 
non-LBA formatted disc, OS/2 would find lots of errors and "fix" them 
by stuffing the file access, especially on cylinders above 1024. This 
is what I assumed you did.

  I also assume that the problemn is the way OS/2 insists on rewriting
the FAT with chkdsk and fdisk during installation, making "corrections"
as it goes.

Regards,
Bob
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