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Ontrack-Manager: uninstall
This experience report was kindly put to our disposal by
Matthias Wipf.
This description relates to version 7.04 of the Ontrack-Manager of
Ontrack Systems. The process may be partly different with other
products.
Procedure to remove the Ontrack-Manager
- IMPORTANT!
It is absolutely inevitable to make a complete backup of the hard-disk
before any action is done! All data get lost when the Ontrack-Manager
is being removed and have to be restored later. If an additional EIDE
controller is added later, then this procedure might become avoidable
(cf 3. and Conclusions)
-
Create a bootdisk with the Ontrack Disk Manager (dm.exe)
-
Start the Ontrack Disk Manager from drive A:
dm /m /y-
The parameter /m
sets the disk manager to manual
mode, which results in the availability of a few more functions. The
other parameter /y-
causes the disk manager not to use
Dynamic Drive Overlay when installing the harddisk. The -
is very important, otherwise the Ontrack-Manager will be used.
- choose Maintenance Menu
- choose UnInstall Disk Manager
- a warning appears that all data will be lost (but fortunately
we made a backup).
In case of an additional EIDE-controller has been added, this
warning might not appear, so check it, but itīs always a good
thing to have a backup.
- when done go back to the main menu, the Ontrack-Manager has
been removed.
- Add the harddisk parameters to the CMOS
If there
is no EIDE-controller available or the BIOS doesnīt support more than
1024 cylinders, it is not possible to use more than 504 MB of disk
capacity (numbers may vary, depending on the mainboard), however large
the harddisk may be. But there still is the option to use the maximum
of 504 MB for DOS and use the remaining disk space for Linux. Linux
doesnīt make use of BIOS calls and so itīs able to use the whole
harddisk.
Prepare the harddisk for DOS: Usually people want to use the maximum
of 504 MB for DOS. So add in the CMOS the user defined type 47 with
the maximum number of 1024 cylinders and the remaining parameters. If
you are unsure about these parameters, the Ontrack Disk Manager might
provide help. Just set up 305 cylinders, 4 heads and 17 sectors/track
in the CMOS. Then start the Ontrack Disk Manager as in 3 and choose
the menu entry CMOS Setup. The next step is to select the harddisk and
then choose Automatic CMOS Selection. In case of the values in the
CMOS are not optimal a note appears, mentioning the values to be
inserted. These have to be set up manually in the CMOS.
Afterwards the harddisk can be formatted and partitioned using the
Disk Manager. This can be also done using DOS fdisk and format, but
the Disk Manager is more flexible and much faster when formatting is
concerned. Never forget the parameter /y-
, or the Ontrack
Manager will be installed again.
- Install Linux
Linux can be installed now using setup and YaST as usual. The Linux
fdisk program recognises the free disk space and the partitions can be
set up as usual.
Conclusions
I have performed all mentioned steps above with a Maxtor 7850AV (850
MB) and everything worked fine. It is most important to make a backup
of the harddisk and to get a bootdisk with the Ontrack Disk Manager on
it. The time needed for the backup is not neglectable and the disk
space for DOS and Windows is limited to 504 MB. But one getīs rid of
the Ontrack Manager, which speeds the boot process enormously and has
a positive effect on access times. Generally the purchase of a EIDE
controller or an appropriate BIOS has to be preferred, of course. Maybe
the backup can be omitted then, as the removal of the Ontrack Manager
can be performed with data loss. But unfortunately I was not able to
test this.

See also:

Keywords: ONTRACK-MANAGER, IZ-DRIVE, DEINSTALL, UNINSTALL

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