Your archive is always built to unzip from the root of the drive you archived the information from. This means that when it is executed, it will unzip into the proper directories automatically. There are no provisions for unzipping from a remote location although it can be done if you know your way around Unzip.
For the purposes of this discussion we will use "Cdrive.exe" as the archive name we will be using to recover the mythical "C" drive in our example.
General recovery (easy):
- Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with your OS/2 installation disks.
- Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive
Reboot normally
General recovery with corrupted desktop recovery included:
- Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with your OS/2 installation disks.
- Rename or delete the "Desktop" directory. We suggest renaming it until you have fully recovered. So, from the root of the boot drive you would type:
ren desktop desktop1
- Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive
Reboot normally
Corrupted desktop recovery only (no other files included):
- Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with your OS/2 installation disks.
- Rename or delete the "Desktop" directory. We suggest renaming it until you have fully recovered. So, from the root of the boot drive you would type:
ren desktop desktop1
- Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) by typing:
Cdrive desktop\*
Use "Cdrive *\" if you only want the directories and no files (or templates) that may be in them. Recovery of INI files only:
- Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with your OS/2 installation disks.
- Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) with the -C *.ini parameter by typing:
Cdrive -C *.ini *
Recovery of INI and CFG files only:
- Boot to a command prompt using your preprepared boot disks or with your OS/2 installation disks.
- Execute your "Cdrive.exe" file in the root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) with the -C *.ini and *.cfg parameters by typing:
Cdrive -C *.ini *.cfg
General recovery to another location using "unzip.exe":
- Execute "unzip.exe" on the Cdrive.exe file that is located in root directory of the "C" drive (the drive it was built from) and make it extract itself in the f:\backup directory with the -d parameter by typing:
unzip -d f:\backup cdrive.exe
There are a couple of things to remember about recovering your configurations and also some tips or tricks to help you recover only selected parts.