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- From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
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- Subject: Re: Help unistalling Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.174246.17621@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:42:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.205854.6450@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
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- In article <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan1.205854.6450@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler) writes:
- >>Hey,
- >> Can someone please help with unistalling Windows NT? We've
- >>tried deleting it but it remains in the boot equence, therefore
- >>it locks the machine up.
- >>
- >>Any help would be great!
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>Rob
- >>
- >
- >WindowsNT (tm) has several hidden files that it deposits in the root directory
- >of the C: drive, even if you are using the flexboot option and the C: drive is
- >DOS (or something else). You'll need to get rid of all the NT files in the
- >root directory on C:. Some of the NT files are not hidden, so just poke around
- >and nuke files that don't belong there.
- >
- >If you wanted to be REALLY sure, you could do a backup of your disk (which is
- >good to do anyway), and exclude the NT files. Then reformat the disk.
- >
- > Scott
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- The simplest thing to do is boot DOS, then run the sys program to reinstall
- the boot sector. This eliminates to the dual boot option and always goes to
- DOS.
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- Rion
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