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Convert FAT to HPFS
- To convert FAT to HPFS
1. Back up the data on your boot drive. Because this conversion cannot be reversed, we strongly recommend that you take this precautionary step.
If a Corrective Service Facility (CSF) has been applied to your version of OS/2, you need to make new Install/Utility disks and use them in place of your original OS/2 disks.
2. Reboot your system (either from a disk, from a partition other than the one you are converting, or from DOS).
3. Run ServerMagic from a partition other than the one you are converting.
4. Select a disk and a FAT partition.
You can see which partitions are labeled FAT by looking at the Type column in the partition list.
5. Click Operations Convert.
6. Click HPFS.
7. Click OK.
8. Click General Apply Changes.
9. Click Yes to confirm that you want to apply the changes.
Important: Once the conversion is finished, you should complete the remaining steps below only if the partition you converted to HPFS contains OS/2.
10. Boot the server from an OS/2 floppy disk. This ensures the new HPFS partition is assigned a drive letter.
11. Copy SYSINSTX.COM from the OS/2 Installation Disk to the root of the new HPFS partition.
12. Copy UHPFS.DLL from the OS/2 Disk 2 to the root of the new HPFS partition. (If you have an OS/2 CD-ROM, consult your IBM documentation for instructions on creating a disk from the disk image.)
13. Change to the new HPFS partition by typing drive: (where drive is the drive letter of the partition you converted from FAT to HPFS).
14. From the root of the new HPFS partition, type SYSINSTX drive: (where drive is the drive letter of the partition you converted from FAT to HPFS).
15. Verify that HPFS.IFS is listed in the CONFIG.SYS file similar to the following:
IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:256 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:C
If this line is not present, add it, replacing C: and :C with the drive letter of the partition you just converted.
16. Verify that HPFS.IFS is present in the \OS2 directory. If the file is not there, copy it from OS/2 Installation Disk 17. Your HPFS partition is now bootable.
Tips
In step 15, if you want to be able to boot to the command line using ALT+F1, make this change to all CONFIG.* files in \OS2\BOOT.
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