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- From: dww@bnr.co.uk (David Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:06:45 GMT
- Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
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- In article <1993Jan4.223742.11978@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- #>FJ>If you have let Stacker 'swap' the drives, so that your 390 MB stacked
- #>FJ>drive is seen as C, you are simply asking for trouble (IMHO).
- #
- # ..... However, I do recognize that there is a class of users who have
- #a use for SSWAP. Users who have a LARGE amount of software installed
- #may enjoy the convenience of not having to reconfigure the software.
-
- Some time ago I reorganised one of the PC's I use to combine 3 partitions
- (pre-Dos5) into one large DOS5 one, and then restored C: and D: backups
- together to C:. That moved most of my Windows stuff from D: to C:.
- It was a nightmare getting it all to work again! In retrospect, it might
- have been better to have put a day aside to reinstall Windows and all my
- applications from scratch, and a second going through all the
- reconfiguration and local setups I had. I did have to re-install some
- things in the end anyway.
-
- The .ini files are text, but the .grp files are binary and they 'know' the
- drive letters too. I do have a binary editor but when I changed C: to D:
- in .grp files Windows objected - I guess they are sum-checked in some way.
-
- So when I bought STACKER and found it would put all my software into a new
- drive (E: on my system), I was VERY glad that SSWAP would hide this from all
- my programs. Thankyou for your warning, but I'll take the risk that some
- future drivers will get confused. And I can see why using SSWAP is the
- installation default - I don't think STACKER would survive the average user
- installing it and then finding that Windows would not start!
-
- I did have a problem with STACKER by the way; quite often it would be unable
- to read a perfectly good file, with DISK ACCESS errors, then after doing a
- retry it would work again. I called the UK STACKER Technical Support, and
- was told to change /EMS to /NB in the first stacker line in my CONFIG.SYS,
- which has solved the problem. Aparently Stacker 3 has EMS contention on
- some systems. I'm not totally happy about this bug, as it means loosing
- more conventional RAM, but her fix has worked.
-
- Regards,
- David Wright BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK
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