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- From: claude@cse.ucsc.edu (Claude Noshpitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: HELP: Re-(De-) Installing NT
- Summary: need to redo install onto NTFS partition
- Message-ID: <1ek8r7INNo27@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:01:59 GMT
- References: <4310@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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- Arrgh. Hi Net! I have been burned by the wrong-video-driver-at-install
- problem and apparently need to start from scratch. Unfortunately, I
- don't have enough disk space free to reinstall on different partition
- than the one I initially did.
-
- Question 1: Will my system be totally unbootable if I simply
- fdisk/format the current NTFS partition?
-
- Question 2: Do I need to do more than copy my DOS boot sector over the
- NT one to make the system DOS-only?
-
- Question 3: Can anyone supply the exact keystrokes to "blindly" set the
- video driver to VGA, since the driver I installed *doesn't work* :-( ?
-
- Thanks very much for any help at all. FWIW, the answer to Question 3
- may be the least traumatic....
-
- --claude
- --
- ...................... nothin left to do but :-) :-) :-) ...................
- Claude Noshpitz claude@cse.ucsc.edu
- 5420 Coast Road University of California, AS225
- Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
-