APAR Identifier ...... PJ15988 FDISKPM UTILITY (WARP) FAILS WHEN TRYING TO DELETE LOGICAL PART TIONS MASTER BOOT RECORD BECOMES CORRUPT, SYSTEM FAILS TO BOOT Symptom ...... IN INCORROUT Status ........... OPEN Severity ................... 2 Date Closed ......... Component .......... 562260100 Duplicate of ......... Reported Release ......... 300 Fixed Release ............ Component Name OS/2 WARP V3 Special Types .. Current Target Date .. Type of Relief ..Not Available SCP ................... OS/2 Platform ............ OS/2 Status Detail: Not Available PE PTF List: PTF List: Parent APAR: Child APAR list: ERROR DESCRIPTION: Initialize FDISKPM and delete 1 or more logical partitions, once this has been done reboot the system, it may NOT come up due to corruption to the master boot record. This is mainly a problem o n drives with bad geometry. I was unable to duplicate on my syst em. Chkpart.exe should be run on the hard drive prior to using F DISKPM, however it is still unadvisable to use FDISKPM to delete partitions LOCAL FIX: Use FDISK If FDISKPM has already caused damage: Boot from floppies and establish a new master boot record by issuing the following: FDISK /NEWMBR
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