First, the response was in reference to a MS NT setup, that would
require commercial licensing fees that could easily run into hundreds
or even thousands of dollars, unless the idea was to try and get away
with operating an unlicensed setup and hope not to get sued. Of
course, a knowledgeable perso
A far superior arrangement for probably 100x the cost. Perhaps the
convention organizers preferred to spend that money on things that
were more meaningful to the convention attendees. Or maybe they just
wanted to keep the money for themselves? Who knows?
On 5/27/14, Christopher Evans wrote:
> I
Have you read this information about HPA (host protected area) on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area
It might provide some help with removing it. However, I suspect that
the problem is as you have assumed that it can't be done with an
usb-to-ide adapter because of the wa
You could try using a SATA to IDE adapter in your other machine. That
would probably provide the low-level access to the partition table the
software needs.
Do you know why the old IDE machine is non-functional? If you have the
time to troubleshoot the problem it might be something cheap and easy
There is this DOS utility created in the mid 1990s called "spawn" by
Geoff Chappell in Australia. I do not know if it will work with
FreeDOS, I've only used it with MS DOS. It allows DOS program
execution (exe file) from config.sys during boot. It will not run a
resident program from conventional m
You ought to go to the Lenovo support site and download the DOS
utilities for your laptop:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT072408
You will have to scroll down and read all the various tools and
utilities available for different OSs. You want the stuff
Dennis' memory is just fine. Windows 3.1 only needs an extended
memory manager (such as HIMEM.SYS), it does not use expanded memory
for either, standard or enhanced modes. However, it was always common
practice to use the expanded memory manager (EMM386.EXE) with the
NOEMS switch in order to prov
Hey sparky4, there is something you should understand. There was not
really any "hardware standards" for the old ISA sound cards either. I
still have 3 old computers with ISA slots. 1 has a genuine
SoundBlaster 8-bit card, another has a non-PnP SoundBlaster 16 (set up
with with jumpers), and a 3
On 12/27/13, Michael Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 10:40 -0500, James Crawford wrote:
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>>
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>> I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and
>> got the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand
>> that the command.com runs in
The copy I have was being thrown away at the place I worked almost 2
decades ago. I fooled around with it back then, experimenting with
the various configurations that are possible with DESQview, but never
found any real use for it that couldn't be done more flexibly with
other choices. This curr
I have a retail box copy of DESQview version 2.42 with all the
accompanying manuals. In the error messages appendix says the
following about this error:
"The DESQview command you performed tried to read the indicated
DESQview file, but couldn't."
"If you decide the indicated file is bad, delete
I haven't messed with Ontrack Disk Manager in many years, but the
version I have is basically a DOS program. So, you just need to boot
the computer into a DOS environment on a medium that has the Ontrack
software (the old version I have has all the Ontrack stuff in a single
600kB directory named "
I just got around to reading this post and I have some specific
information that you might find useful.
I also still have an old PC Chips K6-2-500 motherboard with the SiS
530 AGP video. It is set up in a box with a hard drive drawer
connected as the primary IDE master so I can just stick in any
"There need to be consequences for unprofessionalism, faschism, etcetera. I
honestly wonder if some of the developers are Neo Nazis."
This comes across as just a bit "over-the-top" (and poor spelling as
well...). Fascist, Communist, Socialist, etc., these are people who
will systematically murde
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