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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Removing OS/2 safely (with dual-boot)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.172025.1506@netcom.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:20:25 GMT
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- eapg115@orion.oac.uci.edu (Hans A. Baumgartner ----- (hbaum@uci.edu)) writes:
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- >Help, I need to remove OS/2 2.0 from my disk. I have it set up with dual
- >boot (boot /os2...). How do I safely remove it. Can I get rid of the
- >bootstrap w/o reformatting?
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- Dual boot to DOS (important, as this will restore your boot sector).
- Eliminate the os2 and os2!2_0 etc directory trees. Get rid of os2* files in
- the root. Then remove the hidden files with *.?sf extentions.
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- [sam]
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