Short story is my system is fucked.  OS/2 3.0 has an internal error, and I
was unable to get past it.  OS/2 2.1 does not have the error, and I am
running with it.  In the process, my entire E drive (2 gig) has been
completely emptied.  My D drive (which is on the same physical hard disk)
is still intact.  If I enable LBA support, my D drive does not appear on
boot manager.  If I disable LBA support, it does.  My D drive is HPFS, like
my E drive.  I have done a chkdsk on the E drive, and also, whilst the
trapping was happening, I attempted to install on the E drive (OS/2 3.0),
but I didn't succeed, got some stupid error about a 33 meg file or
something.  When I actually had a look at the drive, I noticed there was
just one file, ACLIST or something, anyway, it looked like that thing I've
heard about with HPFS386/Lan, so I tried HPFS386, no use, I've tried every
single thing, but I suspect the data is still there.  How do I get it back?
 I am running the BBS manually now, as my cmd file was something that I
didn't back up unfortunately.  There has been no loss of point mail, that
is all on the C drive, and anyway, I sent all the outgoing stuff before
doing the upgrade.  Damn, if it had been the D drive that had gotten
trashed, I would have had a fairly recent backup, ie my old IDE drive.

Anyway, I have serious suspicions about this LBA.  The fact that it doesn't
show up in boot manager is worrying.  

But if anyone has a tool to recover data from an HPFS partition that is in
god-knows what state, please send it to me.

Paul
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