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From: w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problems
Message-ID: <8735@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 19:29:42 GMT
References: <1416@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <480034@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Reply-To: w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <480034@hpdml93.HP.COM> rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) writes:
>
>Quite some time ago, Allan Pratt posted the following:
>
>Here's how to remove problem accessories and AUTO folder programs:
>
>Turn off your ST, plug your hard disk in, and turn the hard disk on. 
>Put the disk called BOOT DISK in Drive A:.  Now turn on your ST, and
>when the Drive A: light comes on, press and hold the "Alternate" key. 
...

An even easier method is to use a program like Desk Manager or Superboot
which allows you to select your desk accessories and AUTO programs. Just
make sure that Desk Manager is the very first file in the AUTO folder
and that way it will always load before the crashing TSR or accessory. Then
you just nuke it after the first time it bombs.

Another way to do it, if you're a masochist, is to stick a command line
interpreter in the AUTO folder so you can rename the files manually.

- Darek

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