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- From: pardee@titan.med.ge.com (Brad Pardee 5-5103)
- Subject: Help! Installed Esix, now MS Windows won't work
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.193823.1600@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Reply-To: pardee@ct.med.ge.com (Brad Pardee 5-5103)
- Organization: GE Medical Systems - CT, New Berlin, WI
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:38:23 GMT
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- Help!
-
- I repartitioned my hard drive and added a DOS partition and installed MS DOS 5.0
- and MS Windows 3.1. Everything worked fine. Then I recreated my Unix partiition
- (Esix 4.0.3). Now when I boot from my DOS partition, I am unable to run windows in
- enhanced mode. I tried re-running setup and had to use the /u option for it to let
- me re-install windows. The /u option is supposed to be used if you have a Unix or
- Xenix partition. Without the /u, it pointed me to section 2.5 of the README
- file and the gist of the info from there was "Incompatible hard disk or device drive."
- During the /u setup, it gave me the message "The partitioning scheme used on your
- hard disk prevents the creation of a permanent swap file. You can create a temporary
- swap file."
-
- Does anyone know how I can get Windows to work in enhanced mode? I talked to Esix
- Technical Support and they hadn't heard of this problem before. They suggested
- recreating the DOS partition and trying to install it again (I haven't tried this
- yet, but I'm not very optimistic). Microsoft support said it was incompatible disk
- partitioning software on UNIX and there is no workaround. My DOS setup is very basic
- and there is nothing in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS that relates to anything else. I
- tried booting from a floppy and the results were the same.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help.
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- Brad Pardee
- pardee@ct.med.ge.com
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