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Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:22:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Paul O. BARTLETT" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
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Subject:	RE: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Well, if you can sort-of boot DR-DOS, you should be able to
> overcome your Config.Sys and Autoexec.Bat problems via
> the F8 key (or F5?).

    F8 single steps through CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.  I think that
F5 bypasses both of them, although I have never tried it.

> Then perhaps NDD can fix your partition problems? Or
> Partition Magic? Or Fdisk?

    At present, so far as I know, the only way I gat get to the DOS
partition at all is through FDISK on a floppy or Partition Magic
running under Win98.  I already mentioned the warning from PM which
kind of scared me off.  As for FDISK, I really don't know much about
it, and the only documentation I have is on the unreachable partition.
Granted, I could always delete and recreate the DOS partition, but I
would like to salvage it if I can.  Once I got the ZIPdrive working, I
was going to save a copy of the files on a ZIPdisk, but I never got
that far.

> If you get that far, so things boot normally again, I'd suggest
> you try M$-DOS Himem.Sys and Emm386.Sys from M$W98
> (copy then to C: if required).

    I will keep this in mind.  (I would have to copy them over, because
the main Win partition is not visible to the DOS partition --
deliberately so.)

> Any instability problems I've had in the past with DR-DOS
> 7.02+ have been caused by Emm386.Exe, so that's why
> I have suggested the above. [trim]

    I will keep all that in mind.  Thanks for responding.

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Paul Bartlett
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