MAKE NOTE!!! -

1. You MUST place the original Aptiva Image on the C: drive!!! It cannot be on another drive.
2. These instructions were written with the Dual Boot Win3.1/OS2 Mxx Series Aptiva in mind. They will work for other Aptivas but the process will be slightly different. Additional instructions are necessary for Win3.1/OS2 machines and these instructions are noted with a *. Users of other systems may disregard anything following a *.
3. FOLLOWING THIS PROCEDURE WILL CHANGE YOUR CD DRIVE TO E: OR HIGHER. MANY OR ALL OF YOUR CD PROGRAMS MAY STOP WORKING AND REQUIRE RE-INSTALLS. The C:\PS1TOOLS\APTCDFIX.EXE program may or may not solve this issue to be prepared to solve it on your own.
4. You must possess an original copy of OS/2. The copy on some Aptiva Image CDs will not work.
6. Much of this process is different for each model number, especially with the Mxx series. Know enough about how your computer, FDISK, and DOS works before trying this. You may have to bail yourself out.

Instructions:

1. Make a bootable DOS system floppy and copy FDISK, SYS.COM, and FORMAT onto it. ALso make an OS/2 system floppy and copy FDISK, SYS.COM, and FORMAT onto it. This procedure requires the OS/2 Boot Manager from FDISK and will not work without it.
2. Make a set of Aptiva recovery disks.
3. Startup your system off the your OS2 boot disk
4. When you get the command prompt, run FDISK.
5.If you don't know FDISK (I assume you do by the fact you're doing this in the first place) read up on it to familiarize...Its simple but a wrong choice can royally screw you up.
6.Delete ALL HD partitions.
7.Install BOOT MANAGER, create a Primary Partition and the number of secondary (logical) partitions you want for each OS. The size is up to you but the C: must be around 600 Meg to receive the Aptiva Image. (If you want your two operating systems to read both partitions, you must make the secondary a logical partition)
8. Activate all partitions in Boot Manager. It will instruct you to name the partitions. I named my two partitions Windows and OS2 for ease of use.
9. Exit FDISK and SAVE changes. You will be prompted to CNTL ALT DEL. Be sure the boot disk is still in the diskette drive.
10. When the boot disk restarts and gives a Command Prompt, run FORMAT on all partitions (hard drives).
11. Restart the system off the recovery diskette and reinstall the Aptiva Image from CD. Be aware that your CD drive is probably E: (or higher, depending on the number of partitions you created) and not D: as it was before. Also, like I said before, you must load the image onto the C: and not the D:.
12. After the image is loaded, you will be prompted to re-start. When you do, boot manager will come up. Select the C: drive to start from.
13. * You will see a disk error message (which caused me to have seizures the first time I saw it). Insert your DOS bootable floppy. Restart the system again. When you get a command prompt, make the C: dos-bootable by typing SYS C: from the A: prompt
14. Restart again and your C: should work perfectly. Now time to install OS2...which I assume you already know how to do. BUT REMEMBER, OS2 defaults to install on the C: You want it on the D: (or wherever) so make this choice during setup!!!!. Also install other OS's on other partitions you may have created.
15. *Your recovery disk program now may not work. To fix it, use windows notepad to open the RECOVERY.BAT file from the PS1Tools directory. Change all references to the d: drive to read e: (or whatever drive your CD is now) and save. This should about do it. Now every time you re-boot, you will get a boot manager message asking which partition to start from. By the way, you will only get boot manager at re-boot, not after a rapid resume. Good Luck!!