Q105612: README.TXT: Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 (Part 1 of 4)
Article: Q105612
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Last Modified: 18-NOV-1999
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.2
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SUMMARY
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The following information was taken from the MS-DOS 6.2 README.TXT file.
NOTE: The MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade and MS-DOS 6.2 Step-Up (both downloadable and disk
versions) include the same README.TXT file.
NOTES ON MS-DOS 6.2
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This file provides important information not included in the MICROSOFT MS-DOS 6
USER'S GUIDE or in MS-DOS Help.
This file is divided into the following major sections:
1. Setup
2. MemMaker, EMM386, and Memory Management
3. Windows
4. Hardware Compatibility with MS-DOS 6.2
5. Microsoft Programs
6. Third-Party Programs
7. DoubleSpace
If the subject you need information about doesn't appear in this file, you might
find it in one of the following text files included with MS-DOS:
- OS2.TXT, which describes how to remove and save data on your computer when
you replace OS/2 with MS-DOS 6.2.
- NETWORKS.TXT, which describes how to update your network software for use
with MS-DOS 6.2.
For information about features new to MS-DOS 6.2, type "HELP WHATSNEW" (without
the quotation marks) at the command prompt.
This file contains the following topics:
1. Setup
1.1 SpeedStor
1.2 Incompatible Hard Disk or Device Driver
1.3 AT&T 6300 Computer
1.4 Toshiba with a Hard RAM Disk
1.5 Tandy with ROM DOS
1.6 Setup displays the "Your computer uses a disk-compression program that is
incompatible with Setup" message. 1.7 You deleted files from the directory
that Setup needs to install the optional Windows programs.
1.8 Running Setup if Your Computer Uses Windows NT
1.9 Setup detects that your computer has a non-MS-DOS partition or non-MS-DOS
files, and your computer uses Windows NT.
1.10 Setup displays the "Your computer uses password protection" screen.
1.11 Setup displays the "Your computer is using an incompatible
delete-protection program" screen.
1.12 Setup detects that your computer uses DR DOS.
1.13 Installing MS-DOS on a Drive Other Than C
1.14 Bypassing the Uninstall Disk and Using Default Setup Options
1.15 Installing MS-DOS 6.2 on a System with a CorelSCSI UNI_ASP.SYS Driver
1.16 Installing MS-DOS 6.2 if you have DrivePro or EZ-Drive
1.17 Additional Keyboard and Codepage Support
1.18 Switching Between Modes on Dual-Mode Keyboards
2. MemMaker, EMM386, and Memory Management
2.1 Intel Expanded-Memory Driver (EMM.SYS)
2.2 Running MemMaker on a Computer with PC-NFS
2.3 You have a Super VGA display and want to conserve memory.
2.4 Using MemMaker with IBM LAN
2.5 MemMaker and Adaptec SCSI devices
2.6 Running MemMaker on a computer with PC Tools RAMBoost
2.7 EMM386 detects an error in an application
2.8 MemMaker no longer aggressively scans upper memory by default
3. Windows
3.1 Your computer uses a Windows 3.0 permanent swap file.
3.2 Using compressed floppy disks with Windows File Manager
4. Hardware Compatibility with MS-DOS 6.2
4.1 Compaq EXTDISK.SYS Driver
4.2 Hardcard
4.3 Toshiba
5. Microsoft Programs
5.1 Microsoft Anti-Virus
5.2 Running Microsoft Backup for MS-DOS under Windows
5.3 Backup for Windows stops running at the end of the compatibility test
5.4 Running Microsoft Backup with TI4000 and Gateway NOMAD computers
5.5 Microsoft Defragmenter
6. Third-party Programs
6.1 4DOS and NDOS
6.2 Above Board 286 and Above Board Plus Installation Programs
6.3 CodeView
6.4 Colorado Tape Backup
6.5 Fastback Plus
6.6 Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0
6.7 Norton Utilities
6.8 PC Tools
6.9 QEMM's Stealth DoubleSpace Feature
6.10 Johnson Computer Systems PC-Vault and PC-Vault Plus
6.11 AddStor DoubleTools
7. DoubleSpace
7.1 Converting Your XtraDrive Disk-Compression Software to DoubleSpace
7.2 Converting Stacker 2.x or 3.0 Software to DoubleSpace
7.3 Converting Stacker 3.1 Software to DoubleSpace
7.4 Converting Other Disk-Compression Software to DoubleSpace
7.5 DoubleSpace Setup indicates that your computer is running an incompatible
disk-caching program. 7.6 Your compressed drive runs out of disk space.
7.7 Your uncompressed (host) drive runs out of disk space.
7.8 DoubleSpace did not compress all of your files because the drive ran out
of disk space.
7.9 Windows displays the message "The permanent swap file is corrupt."
7.10 EXTDISK.SYS displays a warning about drive letters.
7.11 You need a special device driver to use your startup drive.
7.12 Defragmenting uncompressed drives after changing file attributes
7.13 Files DoubleSpace cannot compress
7.14 Microsoft Defragmenter runs out of memory while you are compressing a
drive.
7.15 DoubleSpace and PC-Vault
7.16 Maximum size of a compressed drive
7.17 DoubleSpace could not mount a drive due to problems with the drive
7.18 DoubleSpace finishes installation, but you cannot access your Hardcard.
7.19 You receive a DoubleGuard Alarm message
7.20 A compressed drive is currently too fragmented to mount
7.21 DoubleSpace displays the message "Your computer is running with an
incompatible version of DBLSPACE.BIN"
7.22 Using the DBLSPACE command after bypassing DBLSPACE.BIN
7.23 Removing the write-protection from a compressed floppy disk
7.24 Automounting and Norton Disk Cache
7.25 Undelete utilities and DoubleSpace
1. SETUP
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1.1 SpeedStor
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If Setup referred you to this section and your computer has an OS/2 partition
created by using the FDISKPM utility in OS/2 2.1, run MS-DOS Setup by typing
"SETUP /U" (without the quotation marks) at the command prompt.
If Setup referred you to this section and you have neither OS/2 nor a SpeedStor
partition on your computer, see the section "Setup displays the Incompatible
Hard Disk or Device Driver screen" in the "Diagnosing and Solving Problems"
chapter of the MS-DOS 6 User's Guide.
If you do have a SpeedStor partition on your computer, Setup probably referred
you to this section for one of the following reasons:
- Setup could not find in your CONFIG.SYS file a command for the device driver
that supports your SpeedStor partition. If this is the case, add the command
line to your CONFIG.SYS file, restart your computer, and run Setup. For more
information about adding the command line to your CONFIG.SYS file, see your
SpeedStor documentation.
- Your CONFIG.SYS file has a DEVICE=HARDRIVE.SYS line in it. If this is the
case, carry out the following procedure:
1. Use the EXPAND command to expand and copy the SSTOR.SYS file to your hard
disk. Make sure you copy the SSTOR.SYS file to the same path as the
HARDRIVE.SYS file.
See the PACKING.LST file on Setup Disk 1 for the location of the SSTOR.SYS
file on the Setup disks and for instructions on how to expand and copy it
to your hard disk.<7F>
2. Replace the DEVICE=HARDRIVE.SYS command with a DEVICE=SSTOR.SYS command.
For example, if the command that loaded the HARDRIVE.SYS file was
DEVICE=C:\SSTOR\HARDRIVE.SYS, you would replace it with
DEVICE=C:\SSTOR\SSTOR.SYS.
3. Restart your computer.
4. Make sure you can access your hard disk.
5. Run Setup.
1.2 Incompatible Hard Disk or Device Driver
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If Setup referred you to this section, and no other section in this file is
relevant to your system, you have a partition that is incompatible with MS-DOS
6.2. You must delete the partition from your hard disk. See "Using Fdisk to
Configure Your Hard Disk" in the chapter "Diagnosing and Solving Problems" in
the MICROSOFT MS-DOS 6 USER'S GUIDE.
1.3 AT&T 6300 Computer
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If you use an AT&T 6300 computer and your ROM BIOS is version 1.21, contact
your vendor for a ROM BIOS upgrade. The ROM BIOS version number is displayed
when you start your computer.
1.4 Toshiba with a Hard RAM Disk
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These instructions apply to Toshiba models T1200, T1600, T1200XE and T1000LE.
To use the hard RAM disk, carry out the following procedure before you install
MS-DOS 6.2:
1. Back up your hard RAM disk.
2. Using the Toshiba Setup program, delete the hard RAM disk by allocating zero
kilobytes (KB) to it. All data on the hard RAM disk will be lost.
3. Restart your computer
4. Run MS-DOS 6.2 Setup.
5. After Setup is complete, run the Toshiba Setup program to reinstall the hard
RAM disk.
6. Run FDISK, change to drive 2, and create a primary DOS partition. Quit FDISK.
7. Use the FORMAT command to format drive D.
1.5 Tandy with ROM DOS
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Contact your hardware manufacturer for information about upgrading a Tandy
computer with ROM DOS to MS-DOS 6.2. This applies to the following models:
1000EX, 1000HX, 1000SL, 1000SL2, 1000TL, 1000TL2, 1000TL3, 1000RL, 1000RLX,
1000RL-HD, 1000RLX-HD, 1100FD, 2500XL, 2500XL2.
1.6 Setup displays the "Your computer uses a disk-compression program that is
incompatible with Setup" message.
If Setup indicated that your computer has an incompatible disk-compression
program, you must remove it manually before you can install MS-DOS 6.2. Carry
out the following procedure.
NOTE This procedure will replace your current disk-compression software with
DoubleSpace. As an alternative, contact your disk- compression vendor for an
updated version of your software. In most cases, current versions of
disk-compression software are compatible with MS-DOS 6.2.
1. Back up all the files on your compressed drive. In step 3, you will format
your uncompressed drive, which destroys all the files on your compressed and
uncompressed drives.
2. If your Setup disks are compatible with drive A, insert Setup Disk 1 in drive
A, and restart your computer. After Setup displays the first screen, quit
Setup by pressing F3 twice.
If your Setup disks are not compatible with drive A, create a startup floppy
disk for drive A. To do this, insert Setup Disk 1 in drive B, and a blank
floppy disk in drive A. Then type "B:SETUP /F" (without the quotation marks)
at the command prompt.
When prompted, choose to install MS-DOS on the floppy disk in drive A. After
Setup is finished, leave the disk in drive A, and restart your computer.
3. At the command prompt, type "FORMAT C: /S" (without the quotation marks) to
reformat your startup drive and transfer MS-DOS 6.2 system files to it.
4. Remove the disk from drive A, and restart your computer.
5. Insert Setup Disk 1 in drive A or B, and type "A:SETUP" (without the
quotation marks) or "B:SETUP" (without the quotation marks) at the command
prompt.
6. After Setup is complete, type "DBLSPACE" (without the quotation marks) at the
command prompt, and follow the instructions on your screen.
For more information about DoubleSpace, see the chapter "Freeing Disk Space"
in the MICROSOFT MS-DOS 6 USER'S GUIDE.
7. After you have installed DoubleSpace, restore the files you backed up. Do not
restore older versions of MS-DOS files.
1.7 You deleted files from the directory that Setup needs to install the optional
Windows programs.
If you typed "BUSETUP /E" (without the quotation marks) at the command prompt,
the "Setup did not find the files it needs in the directory specified" message
appeared, and you think you deleted the files from your hard disk, insert Setup
Disk 1 in drive A or B, and start Setup by typing "A:SETUP /E" (without the
quotation marks) or "B:SETUP /E" (without the quotation marks) at the command
prompt.
1.8 Running Setup if Your Computer Uses Windows NT
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If your computer has Windows NT installed, but does not have MS-DOS installed on
it, carry out Procedure 1. If your computer has Windows NT and MS-DOS installed
on it, carry out Procedure 2.
Procedure 1
1. Run Setup by inserting Setup Disk 1 in drive A and restarting your computer.
Complete Setup by following the instructions on the screen. When Setup is
complete, Windows NT will be disabled.
If Windows NT was installed on a FAT partition, complete steps 2 and 3 of this
procedure to reenable Windows NT so that you can use both the Windows NT and
MS-DOS operating systems.
If Windows NT was installed on a non-FAT partition, see section 1.9.
2. Insert your Windows NT Setup disk in drive A or drive B, and then restart
your computer.
3. When the Windows NT Setup screen appears, choose Repair, and then insert your
Windows NT Emergency Repair Disk (which you created when you installed
Windows NT) to repair the Windows NT system files.
Procedure 2
1. When you start your computer, choose MS-DOS as your operating system.<7F>
2. Run Setup by inserting Setup Disk 1 in drive A or B, and typing "A:SETUP"
(without the quotation marks) or "B:SETUP" (without the quotation marks) at
the command prompt.
1.9 Setup detects that your computer has a non-MS-DOS partition or non-MS-DOS
files, and your computer uses Windows NT
The procedure you use depends on whether you want to preserve the partition and
its files. Find the section below that describes the configuration you want.
You Don't Want to Preserve the Partition or its Files
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If you don't want to preserve the partition or its files, choose to remove the
partition or files if Setup prompts you to do so. If Setup doesn't offer you
that choice, remove the partition manually after Setup is complete. For
instructions on removing a non-MS-DOS partition manually, see "Using Fdisk to
Configure Your Hard Disk" in the chapter "Diagnosing and Solving Problems" in
the MICROSOFT MS-DOS 6 USER'S GUIDE.
You Don't Want to Preserve the Partition but Want to Save its Files
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If you want to save the data files, but don't want to preserve the partition,
back up the files, run Setup again, and then choose to remove the partition or
files if Setup prompts you to do so. If Setup doesn't offer you this choice,
remove the partition manually after Setup is complete. For instructions on
removing the partition manually, see "Using Fdisk to Configure Your Hard Disk"
in the chapter "Diagnosing and Solving Problems" in the MICROSOFT MS-DOS 6
USER'S GUIDE.
You Want to Preserve the Partition and Its Files
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Carry out the following procedure.
NOTE If the non-MS-DOS partition takes up all the space on your hard disk, you
must reconfigure your hard disk. You can either let Setup do it for you, as
described in the preceding section, or reconfigure it yourself manually. For
instructions on reconfiguring your hard disk manually, see your Windows NT
documentation.
To install MS-DOS 6.2 and preserve your partition or files:
1. Run MS-DOS Setup.
2. When prompted, choose to continue Setup without removing the partition or
files.
3. After Setup is complete, insert your Windows NT Setup disk in drive A or
drive B, and then restart your computer.
4. When the Windows NT Setup screen appears, choose Repair, and then insert your
Windows NT Emergency Repair Disk (which you created when you installed
Windows NT) to repair the Windows NT system files.
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