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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Re-install, how to erase all EA's?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.191054.19947@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:10:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.144330.12401@nlm.nih.gov>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Sep3.144330.12401@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
- >I have a 240mb scsi drive setup as follows:
- >BOOT MANAGER - 1MB
- >C: FAT - 4MB
- >D: FAT - 178MB
- >E: HPFS - 50MB
- >D: and E: are both logical drives (I think)
- >and OS/2 boots off D: FAT
- >I spent some time moving as much OS/2 stuff as I could to the E: HPFS drive,
- >which I got to work, but with the last bunch of stuff I moved, I noticed the
- >fonts in the folders are screwed up and courier font doesn't take effect even
- >though I can choose it. Also, I've decided what I really want is to run OS/2
- >(and specific OS/2 stuff) from an HPFS drive, ie have it boot from the E: HPFS
- >logical drive. So I'm gonna re-install. My question is: what is the best way
- >to remove all evidence of the old OS/2 (EA's etc)? I know I could move stuff
- >around using real DOS and lose the EA's is that the best way? Actually I have
- >a bunch of stuff now on the E: HPFS drive, which I'll want to strip of old EA's
- >What's the best way to go about all this?
-
- Install OS/2 on E:, then, from an OS/2 floppy boot, CHKDSK /F drives D
- and E.
-
- That should do it.
-
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