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Get data off OS/2 system partician
Name: jrw11 Date: March 4, 2003 at 07:49:03 Pacific OS: OS/2 CPU/Ram: Intel pentium 2.0 1 gigab
Comment:
I have a hard drive from a circa 1993 OS/2 machine that I need to get data off to transfer to an XP machine. Two other particians on the drive have been transferred, but I can't read the system partician.
Name: Mike Date: March 5, 2003 at 08:00:22 Pacific
Reply:
The system partition could be formatted with HPFS, which wont read XP out of the box. First check the partition type/file system with a tool like PartitionMagic. If its HPFS then use OS/2 to copy data to a FAT drive or install the pinball driver to access the partition with XP. You may search on hobbes for this driver...
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