PE> Anyway, I have serious suspicions about this LBA.

RS> You should have tried just disabling that on the first hint of a problem
RS> with E once you installed the new motherboard, if thats what you did.

PE> Well actually I replaced the disk with my old IDE, and
PE> it still wouldn't boot off my C drive, with OS/2 3.0.
PE> I did write down all the OS/2 abend information.

Presumably you are saying 'yes, I doubt its related to LBA since...
that stuff you say above'. I agree if thats what you are saying.

I've binned the bulk of the rest of this, currently we dont have any
real evidence for anything other than the usual OS/2 massive fuckup when
you tried to install it, now that you have spelt out what you did better.

PE> Ok, I can't remember if I actually did this.  However,
PE> I didn't really care if the drive data was visible,
PE> what I cared about was booting OS/2 3.0 off the C drive.

You needed to care because of the safety of your unbacked up data.

PE> If that had worked, and I had found the drive not visible,
PE> I would have done further investigation into that.

That would be fine with the drive fully backed up onto
say tape, but very dangerous if you havent got that.

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

RS> Sounds like what you have done with it since has creamed it.

PE> The raw data will still be stored on the disk in sectors, which
PE> I can still access, aren't they?  Or does HPFS get rid of sectors?

The problem is that if you attempt to write to a partition which looks
quite different because the mapping has changed, by trying to install
Warp on it, and then you chkdsk it too, you may well have had a significant
number of those sectors had their data changed. That can even happen in
the middle of a file you want, because the changed mapping makes it appear
that those sectors are free etc. Obviously thats then not recoverable.

Anyway, thats all now irrelevant when its basically just the usual
gross fuckup that OS/2 can do at times, particularly with an install.

Its an extremely dangerous business trying to install it on a
partition that has data you cant afford to lose. There is a lot
to be said for only installing it on a partition you have got properly
backed up or even on its own partition. Because its so fragile.
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