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  • 1.  Need a bootable bootworks uninstaller disk.

    Posted Feb 27, 2014 12:25 PM

    I need a bootable disk that will uninstall the bootworks partition.   I've created one through the Boot Disk Creator but all it does is boot up to a dos window and an X: drive.   It doesn't unistall the partion and the BWINST.EXE is no where to be found.   What step am I missing??



  • 2.  RE: Need a bootable bootworks uninstaller disk.

    Posted Feb 27, 2014 12:34 PM

    Does this articles help ?

    How to successfully remove a BootWorks partition so that the OS loads afterwards?

     

    Article:HOWTO1533  |  Created: 2006-01-09  |  Updated: 2006-01-09  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO1533

    How do I create a job to remove the embedded BootWorks partition?

     

    Article:TECH30305  |  Created: 2007-05-25  |  Updated: 2007-05-29  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH30305

     



  • 3.  RE: Need a bootable bootworks uninstaller disk.

    Posted Feb 27, 2014 01:22 PM

    Neither of those are helpful. 

    There are several needs for this boot disk.   We have machines in remote locations that don't have network access and need bootworks removed.  

    Times past we made bootworks uninstallers that just booted up and automatically removed the bootworks partition.   The new uninstaller doesn't do anything.

    We also have the odd machine that gets an "Invalid LBAI" error.   Removing bootworks with a disk quickly cured the issue.  

    WinPE2.1 bootworks uninstaller worked but we still had to run BWINST.EXE -u    The new one for WinPE4 doesn't seem to work the same.