[Discussion] WIN32 Driver

[Kev]

G'day Jim

My solution was/is to simply use FAT and not mess around.  Find a 
Windoze box somewhere to read and backup the existing data on the 
drive.  Whilst still in Window$ format it as FAT (not FAT32) and then 
copy all the data back.  Works every time ;-)

Cheers
Kev

jim.scott at scottelectronic.com wrote:
>  
> Okay, here goes... 
>  
> I have ECS 1.2 and I decided that I would try and look at a little 1G thumb drive I got.  It, of course, is formatted for a Windoze   
> machine, and so I can't read it.  I thinks to myself, I need one of those Win32 IFS drivers to be in my CONFIG.SYS - so I do that. 
>  
> Well, at boot time when it loads, it decides to *abort* since it cannot find a WIN32 partition.  How stupid is that!!! 
>  
> No information in the books I have, and not any help on the driver, so does anyone know if there is a way to force it to stay resident. 
>  
> I'm not even sure it will do the job :-( 
>  
> IFS=F:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS  /CACHE:2048 
> REM orig IFS=F:\OS2\BOOT\FAT32.IFS /Q /CACHE:2048 
>  
> I had tried NTFS without success: 
> REM 3-19-07 Enabled NTFS.IFS and modify it some. 
> REM 3-23-07 Disable NTFS.IFS which I had enabled 3-19-07 
> REM old IFS=F:\ecs\boot\ntfs.ifs /RO:* 
>  
> So what is so difficult about using the WIN32 file system, or the NTFS (is read only) file system in os/2? 
>  
>  
> Any ideas? 
>  
> JIm Scott 
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