PC/IX partitions

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From: Cs161 Cs161
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1986 00:40

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Hello,

	I have a problem that I hope someone can solve:

	We have an IBM-XT which once upon a time had PC/IX installed on
	one of its 2 hard disks.  As a result, that disk has a DOS partition
	and a PC/IX partition.  The other hard disk is solely DOS.

	The problem is this:  we no longer have PC/IX and we want to get
	rid of the PC/IX partition.  Fdisk won't touch it.  I even went
	into debug and called int 26H to do an absolute disk write.  I
	suceeded in overwriting every sector on the hard disk, but the 
	data about the partition still remains!!!!

	Where is this info stored?  How can I get rid of the partition
	without having to go buy PC/IX to de-install itself??

					thanx,

						Joel Smith
						(cs161@harvard.ARPA)

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Subject: PC/IX partitions
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 19:40:15 EST
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