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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:15:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.131554.23826@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <1992Aug31.232140.631@u.washington.edu> <Bu891x.A6L@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <Bu8AGz.BGs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <Bu8AGz.BGs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >
- >Whats the approved method of doing this? I've had three self-avowed
- >pirates call me in the last two weeks who installed Stacker on their
- >drives and had the machine crash. They couldn't un-install it. The
- >first thing I asked was "Do you have the manual?" "Ummm.. no..."...
- >Resisting the urge to yell "You immoral software pirate you..." I had
- >to tell them that I didn't know how to do it since I don't have Stacker
- >myself.
- >
- >Is there a quick, approved way of un-stacking a drive?
-
- Remove the stacker entries in your config.sys. Then delete the stackvol.sys
- file from the unstackered drive. Et voila! No more stacker... (no more data
- but that's not my problem...).
-
- If you want to preserve the data then you probably want to back up the stacker
- data to floppies, do the above procedure, then restore the backup. It probably
- won't fit onto your drive now though... (again, not my problem...).
-
- Harry
-
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