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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
To: "_MoZ_" <zoul AT alpha DOT pulsar DOT net>, <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] WTF!!!  OpenDOS farked my system!!!
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:25:53 -0600
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_MoZ_ <zoul AT alpha DOT pulsar DOT net> wrote:

>>>>>>>>
[to paraphrase]  I installed OpenDOS on top of NT on a five partition 6GB
hard drive.  NT now won't boot, not even with the rescue diskette.  It only
boot OpenDOS.  I uninstalled OpenDOS.  Now my machine wouldn't boot at all.
 I than installed MS-DOS, then NT.  But "NT would not install, because it
said the MS DOS portion of the setup could not detect a hard drive, or
something like that..."
So I repartitioned the hard drive, and I can see everything through DOS. 
"But NT still cannot detect whatever it is looking for...".

"SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME.. I AM BEGGING OF YOU... HELP!!!"
>>>>>>>>

MoZ,
Do you really need to install MS-DOS before you install NT?  What is it
that NT cannot detect?

People,
1.  Think it through before you do anything.
2.  Don't panic.  Don't act on your panic.
3.  When in doubt, ask the group first.  Someone, somewhere in the world
has already gone through what you are experiencing, many times over.
4.  Critical systems should have a set of backup, which, in case the
computer is destroyed, can be used to restore to a similarly equipt
machine.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com