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From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 Over Another OS
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.223457.760@news.nd.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 22:34:57 GMT
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|> In article <1990Dec3.181139.28985@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
|>            jwh@bodwin.ifs.umich.edu (James W. Howe) writes:
|> >I've been trying to install OS/2 1.2 EE over AIX on a PS/2
|> >and I encountered a problem.  The problem is that I could
|> >not remove the old AIX partitions on the hard disk.
|> >...
|> >My question is this, is there a way to remove partitions of
|> >other operating systems using only the OS/2 software provided?
|> 

You can delete partition by directly editing the partition table with something
like Norton Utilities Advanced addition.  Startup in maintanence mode:

NU /m

choose absolute sector under selections and choose sector 0, track 0, head 0

Blank out the data for the foriegn partition.

Save the sector (ESC then W for write).

Reboot.

You should no longer have the foriegn partion, so run FDISK.

Voila.

Robert Kelley Cook
University of Notre Dame