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Q73601: Using Uninstall on an OS/2 System

Article: Q73601
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 22-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 5.0 
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SUMMARY
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You can run the Microsoft MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Uninstall program on systems that
have MS OS/2 version 1.0, or IBM and MS OS/2 1.1 and later versions. However, if
you install MS-DOS 5.0 over IBM OS/2 1.0, you cannot run the Uninstall program.

You can work around this by renaming the IBM OS/2 1.0 system files IBMBIO.COM and
IBMDOS.COM, so that Setup does not confuse them with DOS system files.

If you run the Uninstall program on a system that had OS/2 on it before the
upgrade, running CHKDSK may show some lost extended attributes. This happens
whenever a file that had extended attributes under OS/2 was altered under DOS
before you ran the Uninstall program.


Additional query words: 5.00

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS500
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0

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