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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: How to retain DESKTOP after reinstalling FAT --> HPFS?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.015714.11039@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:57:14 GMT
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- In article <stanton.451.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >Several people have kindly given me instructions about moving from a fully
- >FAT system to a HPFS system, and the consensus is that I need to back up my
- >data, reinstall OS/2 with HPFS, and restore again.
- >This is all very well
- >apart from one BIG hassle I can see. Do I have to reinstall the default
- >DESKTOP under HPFS, then customize it from scratch? This would be an
- >incredible pain. If there's a way to save my current desktop settings, then
- >restore them under HPFS, I'd be very grateful to anybody who could tell me
- >how.
-
- WPSBackup should let you do that. That utility is available via
- anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- It is a bit of a pain if you originally installed OS/2 on FAT and want
- to move to HPFS. But WPSBackup should at least let you save your
- desktop in the process.
-
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