PE> 2. Warp's fdisk gives me an error saying "disk 4's partition
may be corrupt

RS> Presumably that valid given you stuffed it and lost the data.

PE> I don't see how I could stuff the partition table.

Thats not the only way you can get a partition
that the fdisk may think may be corrupt.

PE> BTW, on the 2.5 gig disk, I had 3 partitions.
PE> The data on the first and last was not corrupted.

Well, just whats corrupt can be complicated.

RS> enabling LBA on a drive which has been FDISKed etc without that
RS> enabled may well make the data invisible etc. Its probably to late
RS> for it now tho, particularly the CHKDSK you did on it in that state.

PE> Is the HPFS format so vulnerable that it can't recover lost chains?

That depends on what you have done to the mapping. If the mapping
has changed significantly, nothing that assumes the mapping is
unchanged can recover from something as drastic as that.

PE> It's not like CHKDSK spent 3 hours recovering
PE> the drive, it basically did fuck all.

OK, you never made that clear before. Yes, in that case where it just
gives up, it isnt likely to have fucked it itself. In some cases it
can get so confused that it mindlessly bins all the files, taking hours
to do that, and doesnt even bother to pause when every single one appears
fucked and ask you if you really are sure you want it to keep going.

PE> Is there specs around for HPFS?

Yeah, in the red books. They are on the IBM BBS and the net etc.

PE> [later]

PE> I tried disabling LBA on the 4th drive (corrupt 2.5 gig disk),
PE> and although I didn't get my corrupt partition back with data,
PE> I did get the first partition on that drive appearing on my
PE> bootmanager menu. I tried booting off it, to see what would
PE> happen (it should have a 7-disk OS/2 3.0 install on it), but
PE> it said that the partition wasn't formatted.  Considering the
PE> data is still there, and fine, that is just a little untruthful!

Yeah, looks like the usual OS/2 massive series of brain farts. Robust, it aint.

Which is why its not exactly a terrific idea to try installing it on a
partition that you dont have backed up and care about the data that on it.
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