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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: Help unistalling Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.040019.20218@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <1993Jan1.205854.6450@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:00:19 GMT
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- In <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
- >
- >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 do so, you won't be able to boot the system from harddisk, since
- NT installs a boot sector, that loads NTLDR instead of IO.SYS. If there is
- no NTLDR. The system won't boot. Be sure to reinstall a correct boot sector
- to boot DOS again. The best method is to type SYS C:, when booting from a
- diskette with your DOS-Version.
-
- Christoph
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