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   schimmi to Pertti Helander   
   Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3 from my 957   
   10 May 23 13:11:26   
   
   From: stefan.lemanski@gmail.com   
      
   Hi Pertti,   
   so your primary partition is still FAT. Good.   
   The correct command should be "fdisk /mbr". My mistake :)   
   Remember, OS/2 replaced your autoexec.bat and config.sys files under C:/ -   
   maybe there are Backups (*.bak) of these files, you have to rename.   
      
   And again: make a backup before you try something like that.   
      
   Stefan   
      
   Pertti Helander schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2023 um 16:14:49 UTC+2:   
   > keskiviikko 10. toukokuuta 2023 klo 10.42.42 UTC+3 Pertti Helander   
   kirjoitti:    
   > > keskiviikko 10. toukokuuta 2023 klo 3.26.30 UTC+3 schimmi kirjoitti:    
   > > > Hi Pertti,    
   > > >    
   > > > hard to tell, what gone wrong here. Basically, you can't easily   
   uninstall an Operating System like an Application.    
   > > >    
   > > > OS/2 Warrp came with a Boot Manager and the [optional] HPFS-Filesystem -   
   did you installed that / formatted your HD?    
   > > >    
   > > > Or did you just installed OS/2 besides the Windows Installation on the   
   existing FAT Partition?    
   > > > Can you still access your w95-files from os/2?    
   > > >    
   > > > In this case, it might help to recreate the original boot code: boot   
   from your w95 startdisk and try this command:    
   > > > fdisk /fixmbr    
   > > > and check with fdisk, that drive C: is active/bootable.    
   > > >    
   > > > But please keep in mind, that this can lead to an unusable system. due   
   to some guesses :)    
   > > >    
   > > > Stefan    
   > > > Pertti Helander schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2023 um 00:51:50 UTC+2: 5    
   > > > > Is here some OS/2 users who can help me?    
   > > > > I installed OS/2 Warp 3 to my 9577 with Win 95 in it. Now I can´t   
   access to my Win 95 so I want to uninstall OS/2 Warp but don´t know how to do   
   it. On the manual I have there is nothing for uninstalling the whole OS. When   
   i get rid of OS/2 Warp    
   and Win 95 I will start to use only Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22 again.    
   > > > > I made a mistake when installing OS/2 Warp to the same HD partition   
   that has Win 95. I thought that OS/2 install will make a boot sequence from   
   witch I can choose to boot either OS/2 or Win 95. I was wrong and want to get   
   rid of OS/2 Warp.    
   > > I didn´t installed HPFS filesystem and formatted HD but installed OS/2 on   
   the existing FAT partion that has Win 95.    
   > > I can´t access my WIn 95 files from OS/2. Only I can access from OS/2 to   
   DOS-promt.    
   > > I had started to work with my new 9577 istalling first DOS 6.22, then Win   
   3.11 for workgroups and then Win 95 .    
   > > At last I installed OS/2 Warp 3. I can boot only to OS/2.    
   > > I will try to boot with my Win95 startdisk and run fdisk to fix mbr and   
   check if my drive c: is active.    
   > > I still want to uninstall OS/2 Warp from my 9577.    
   >    
   > > In this case, it might help to recreate the original boot code: boot from   
   your w95 startdisk and try this command:    
   > > fdisk /fixmbr    
   > > and check with fdisk, that drive C: is active/bootable.   
   > I booted from Win95 start disk and run command fdisk /fixmbr but it didn´t   
   recognised this /fixmbr.    
   > Checked with fdisk that my C: dvive is active and bootable.    
   > I have in my 9577 two 212MB HDs and all files are in first drive C and drive   
   D is empty.   
      
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