i used win98 bootdisk (with duse.exe and duseldr.com) to get into DOS. then with the duse.exe driver a:\>duseldr.com duse.exe get the usb 2.0 external HDD loaded. but when i want to run the Ghost2k3.exe(about 1000k) which is in the`external HDD. i get a message like that, can't run the ghost2k3.exe : Program too big to fit memory Memory allocation error. Cannot load command system halted. why?thanks

Does Ghost not have facility to create boot disks? My Iomega Ghost CD is bootable and installs DOS USB support. The only suggestion is to use a W98 OEM or ME OEM boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com and try different USB drivers see: www.mwpms.uklinux.net/usbfire.txt www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB

Good grief, all that happened is that he ran out of conventional memory. It has nothing to do with his USB drive. Are you loading any drivers at all with your bootdisk? Report back with the contents of your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. However, the first thing to do is to make sure you at least have these things in your config.sys: device=a:\himem.sys device=a:\emm386.exe dos=high,umb Obviously make sure you have himem.sys and emm386.exe in the root directory of your floppy. These three lines alone will 'buy' you alot of conventional memory, perhaps enough to run Ghost. -Michael

To Michael: i had tried to use emm386.exe i found that just can run emm386.exe after some driver loaded. first, i am using win98 bootdikette OEM. i chose "start the computer with cd-rom",then get into DOS. a:\>c: c:\>emm386.exe emm386.exe was installed. then c:\>a: a:\>duseldr duse.exe get my USB HDD loaded. but a:\>f: (my usb HDD letter) f:\>dir and it showed a wrong file lis tree. there was just ONE FOLDER names chics~1(looks like this, i can't remember), i couldn't find any else files in the USB HDD. SECEND, i tried "start computer without cd-rom", get into DOS. a:\>c: c:\>emm386.exe emm386 driver is not installed then i tried to load the USB HDD first before load emm386.exe c:\>a: a:\>duseldr duse.exe get USB HDD loaded. a:\>c: c:\>emm386.exe UNLUCKY. i get the same error message again. Program too big to fit memory Memory allocation error. Cannot load command system halted.

A Win98 boot disk config.sys file is like this, you will need to add EMM386.exe file to floppy along with DUSE driver, are you using version 4.4?? available from: http://www.pocketec.net/downloads/duse_4_4.zip [menu] menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support. menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support. menuitem=HELP, View the Help file. menudefault=CD,30 menucolor=7,0 [CD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 [NOCD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [HELP] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [COMMON] files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 lastdrive=z after both the entries device=himem.sys /testmem:off add the following: device=emm386.exe and add the DUSE driver as last entry Good luck...........

to x86 then the config.sys should be look like this, right? [menu] menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support. menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support. menuitem=HELP, View the Help file. menudefault=CD,30 menucolor=7,0 [CD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=emm386.exe device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 device=duse.exe [NOCD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [HELP] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [COMMON] files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 lastdrive=z RIGHT?

That would put DUSE only in the CD option. If you want also NoCD w/ DUSE, it would be [menu] menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support. menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support. menuitem=HELP, View the Help file. menudefault=CD,30 menucolor=7,0 [CD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=emm386.exe device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 device=duse.exe [NOCD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=emm386.exe device=duse.exe [HELP] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [COMMON] files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 lastdrive=z I would suggest you skip all the CD drivers and create a cleaner config.sys like this: device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=emm386.exe files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 device=duse.exe You may also want to try to replace the last line with devicehigh=duse.exe if Ghost still asks for more memory... HTH