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.
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