Ok, I recently took a job where I would be supporting a large amount of windows machines. After starting I was informed that there a "few" OS2 machines as well, but they are in the process of being sunsetted. After locating these machines, I decided the best way to have a backup would be to have a drive clone of the hard drive. So i decided to make a clone of it using norton ghost 2003. As I did the clone, I immediatly recieved a message from ghost "Abort: ReadBiosParameterBlock:Unknown Fat Type!!". After getting this message, I assumed ghost could not understand the OS/2 File system, So I powered down and removed the new drive. When I went to boot the machine back up, as it was before, Right after the OS/2 Splash screen comes up, I get an error "OS/2 Cannot operate your hard disk or diskette drive. The system is stopped. Correct the problem.....". I found it odd, so i used some OS2 boot floppies to get a command prompt. While using the command prompt, the drive is there, but when i try to make the C: drive my working directory (By typing C:), I get "the C: drive is not ready.....". I have tried a few different utilities to boot to a command prompt with hpfs drivers, but the drive is always "not ready". Partition magic sees the drive, and even has the drive label listed correctly. This drive is partitioned into 3 partitions, and I have no problem getting a dir on the D or E drives. Its just to C: drive. Any help on recovering from this error would be greatly appreciated, As I dont know enough about OS2 to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Ghost will only write to the target drive, so it seems you have selected the original drive C: as your target instead of the source. No idea what Ghost wrote to C: but you can analyse the drive very effectively and possibly repair it too using DFSEE from www.dfsee.com.

There is no doubt that i selected the correct drive when picking the destination drive. (going from a 6gb to a 20 gb is hard to screw up). I am having a hell of a time trying to clone these drives. I have tried Acronis true image 8, norton ghost 2003, Drive image 2002, and even went back to my archive of floppies and tried drive image 1.0. The problem appears to be the JFS partitions on the drive. Acronis is the only one to make a bootable clone, but did not copy the 2 JFS partitions. Not a complete failure, but still not what I wanted. I am currently doing a clone using DFSee, which is taking an ungodly amount of time, but seems to be the only software stating full support of HPFS as well as JFS. As far as repairing the first drive, I will surely give it a try with the dfsee app, and maybe make the original bootable.