Bryann Melvin schrieb:
> Davey Brain wrote:
> 
> 
>>SNIP
>>restoring a backup to CD and it says my boot drive is locked and it
>>can't do it. I even tried a chkdsk on my boot drive after booting the
>>eCS CD. It says my boot drive is locked then too. So I guess my 6 months
>>of installs & customizing is gone.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Did you have Autocheck enabled for the boot drive. If so. booting to 
> whatever works ...command prompt for example... then simply shutting the 
> computer off and starting it again with the power switch should force a 
> checkdisk /F of the boot drive.

DON'T do that - it may kill any data on it even as it should not do 
that. Using the power switch is exactly the same as when the 
generating power station switches off you power. This had cost me 40GB 
of data - including the physical drive. Whenever you sees no other 
chance: use the reset button as this will help the disk to shudown 
itself hard, moving the heads away from the data areas. But more save 
is the following procedure as it will clean up the busy bit and all 
the internal buffers (in memory and on HD):

Edit config.sys to be
ifs=.... /autocheck=+x+y....

Whereas the leading + in front of a driveletter it means to chkdsk: 
check the drive independant of its state.

There is NO need to corrupt the drive to get a check done.

Shutdown normally, reboot and chkdsk does its work. When the system is 
up and running change back to normal funtion.

You may even extend the options with /F:3 to get the most complete 
check and repair checkdsk can do.  ...autocheck:+c+de /F:3

Means do a full chkdsk at boot for drive C: and D:, check drive E: 
only when busy bit is set. The check is done like 'chkdsk x: /F:3' 
before the system gets started fully.

Another way (not recommended without installation disks/CD fixed to 
the current filesystem fixlevel) is to boot from installation 
diskettes/CD/ maintenance partiton and run
chkdsk x: /F:2 or /F:3
on each drive.

Again: DON'T play with the power button when you loves to hold your 
filesystems intact.

In all the time I use OS/2 and eComStation I have lost 2 drives during 
power fail. One was really unresponitive even on low level format 
(HPFS), the other went from r/w to irreversible read only (JFS). 
However when I had loose data it was on power failture, never on CAD, 
really rarely on pressing the reset button.



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