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- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:31:18 EST
- From: <SASTPH@vm.sas.com>
- Message-ID: <93022.083118SASTPH@vm.sas.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: SuperStor 2.0 Installation experiences
- Lines: 42
-
- After getting a lot of very good advice from this newgroup, I set
- about installing SuperStor 2.0 on my Gateway 2000 386DX with an 80Mb
- IDE hard drive. I'm running MS-DOS 5.0, 386MAX, and Windows 3.1.
-
- (Incidently, this post contains NO Windows-specific questions, but
- this newsgroup is only one on which I can find SuperStor users.)
-
- The installation did not go well. When SSTOR finished PREPARING
- my hard disk and I re-booted, DOS told me it couldn't find COMMAND.COM.
- I had to get out my DOS 5.0 installation disks and copy EXPAND.EXE
- to my C: drive, and then use EXPAND.EXE to get EDLIN off the installation
- disks. Then I used EDLIN to change the SHELL statement in my CONFIG.SYS
- to point to a copy of COMMAND.COM on the uncompressed drive. I could
- then boot (almost) normally. It was then I discovered that for some
- reason there were NO files in my C:\DOS directory (C: being the compressed
- drive). Evidently SuperStor forgot to copy them when it compressed
- everything. Since I installed DOS 5.0 using the "vanilla" installation
- procedures, I'm at a lost to understand why SuperStor would have trouble
- with this.
-
- Anyway, I restored my C:\DOS directory from the backup I made prior to
- installing SuperStor and continued.
-
- Next I thought I'd re-run 386MAX's MAXIMIZE to get the SuperStor
- driver loaded high. Of course, 386MAX.SYS has to be loaded before
- SSTORDRV.SYS, so 386MAX.SYS (and many other 386MAX files) have to
- reside on the uncompressed portion of my disk. However, this portion is
- presented as the D: drive to MAXIMIZE, and I haven't been able to convince
- MAXIMIZE that it shouldn't use C: in filenames. I guess I'll be talking
- to the 386MAX people today.
-
- So, I edited my CONFIG.SYS to change the C:'s that MAXIMIZE put in to
- D:'s and re-booted. Imagine my surprise when 386MAX.SYS started reporting
- that it couldn't find any of the things it was supposed to load! Further,
- imagine my anguish when my AUTOEXEC.BAT finished and DOS gave me the
- message "File Allocation Table Bad".
-
- Now, any attempt to run a program just causes my machine to hang.
-
- Any advice?
-
- Thanks for listening, and thanks in advance for any help you can give.
-