BG>> Dunno, I ran it once, just after an HPFS defrag, and it actually found

BG>> and recovered a couple of files which I'd intentionally deleted ages

BG>> ago.  At the time, I was rather impressed...



db>> HPFS was designed from the ground up to be robust - despite what
problems 

 BG> 

db>> people may have, it's a pretty damn clever piece of work. 



 BG> And it's been around long enough to have most of its bugs ironed out by 

 BG> now

 BG> anyway (which is presumably why I've never had a single problem with it).



db>> Throughout OS/2 2.1 and 3.0, I've had system crashes (hardware reset 

 BG> style)



db>> that have never lost a thing on any HPFS partition. 



 BG> Same here.  If the auto chkdsk finds problems here, it has always been 

 BG> able to

 BG> fix them on its own, and I've lost nothing either.  Not once.



OK, let me have a go. I seem to have a reputation for trashing

partitions, drives and motherboards. I'll see what I can do  & report

back later. How much time have I got;-)



db>> Apart from the inconvenience of not being able to easily access 'em from

db>> DOS boot floppies, I'm now pretty damn comfortable with the HPFS file 

db>> system.



Can't an OS/2 boot floppy be made to just access a HPFS drive at

Command prompt level (instead of the GUI level)



 BG> I have this German ute called HPFS4DOS, and when run from the DOS CLI 

 BG> (there's

 BG> a Windows version too, but I've never tried it), it allows FULL read and 

 BG> write

 BG> access to ALL HPFS drives and partitions.  I've even run DOS apps from 

 BG> HPFS

 BG> drives under native DOS, yet have not had any problems with it.  The 

 BG> entire

 BG> archive is under 40Kb, so if you want a copy, let me know.



Yes, Please



db>> As Doug said - in rare cases (hasn't bit me yet, but I'm in no rush to 

db>> experience, either!).



I'll do it for you.



Russell



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