dos 622, win 311 old packard bell for friend. Installed new HD, formatted, dos, os, installed cd all up and running. (Would not read size of new HD so emulated as two hard drives in setup.) HD 700+mb total, split in half. Windows runs, the problem is it says it has no memory to do anything. So I figure something is loading wrong\out of order. The cd was loaded before I compressed the drives. I don't understand in what order these things should be in. Here is my autoexec and config files give or take a few spaces typed wrong. autoexec.bat LH /L:o;1,45456 /S C:\Windows\Smartdrvv.exe LH /L:1,46640 C:\SBPRO\DRV\MSCDEX.exe /V /D:MSCD001 /M:15 @echo off Prompt $p$g Path C:\Windows:C:\DOS set temp=C:\DOS config.sys Device=C:\DOS\himen.sys Sevice=C:DOS\EMM386.exe noems win=DC00-DFFF Buffers=15,0 Files=30 DOS=UMB Lastdrive=Z FCBS=4,0 Devicehigh /L:1,12048 =C:DOS\setver.exe DOS=high Shell=C\DOS\command.com C:\DOS\ /p Device=C:\DOS\DRVSPACE.sys /move Device=C:\Windows\IFSHLP.sys Stacks=9,256 Device=C:\SBPRO\DRV\SBPCD.sys /D:mscd001 /p:220 If someone could help me out I would appreciate your time, thank you in advance.

Why did you compress the drive? How much memory does the system have? If you run MEM what does it report?

Hello Jill H, You could try this enclosed configuration, but I recommend you have a boot-up floppy, and back up your existing autoexec.bat and config.sys files just in case it doesn't work correctly. I'd suggest this: autoexec.bat @echo off C:\dos\smartdrv.exe LH C:\SBPRO\DRV\MSCDEX.exe /V /D:MSCD001 /M:15 Prompt $p$g Path C:DOS;C:\Windows set temp=C:\DOS config.sys device=C:\DOS\himem.sys /testmem:off device=C:DOS\EMM386.exe noems Buffers=15,0 Files=30 DOS=HIGH,UMB Lastdrive=Z FCBS=4,0 Stacks=9,256 Shell=C\DOS\command.com C:\DOS\ /p Devicehigh=C:DOS\setver.exe Devicehigh=C:\DOS\DRVSPACE.sys /move Devicehigh=C:\Windows\IFSHLP.sys Devicehigh=C:\SBPRO\DRV\SBPCD.sys /D:mscd001 /p:220 Drivespace can be a bit of a memory hog. If everything starts up okay, do a MEM /C /P to see how much memory you have left, and where devices are in memory. HTH. Regards.

A couple of things I'd suggest; For the following files, do a search (ie; dir/s/p himem.sys) and note the date and location of them: himem.sys, emm386.exe, smartdrv.exe, mscdex.exe Using the lateset/most up to date file that you find, overwrite the others in the other locations with that latest file, OR, ensure your startup files give the path to those most up to date files. 6.22 should be more up to date than the 3.11 versions. Mscdex (again, the most up to date file) should be loaded prior to smartdrv. Uncompress your drive. This is where a good portion of your memory is going. (Hence the driverline for drvspace is remarked out in config.sys) Make a seperate temp directory from c:\dos. (ie; at the c:\> prompt, type md temp) Then, (after backing up your current files) try the following; config.sys =========== device=C:\DOS\himen.sys device=C:DOS\EMM386.exe noems frame=none I=B000-B7FF win=DC00-DFFF Devicehigh=C:\SBPRO\DRV\SBPCD.sys /D:mscd001 /p:220 Devicehigh=C:DOS\setver.exe ;Device=C:\DOS\DRVSPACE.sys /move ;Device=C:\Windows\IFSHLP.sys Stacks=9,256 dos=high,umb SHELL=c:\COMMAND.COM c:\ /E:432 /p break=on switches=/f ;Buffers=15,0 (Smartdrv does a better job) Files=30 FCBS=4 autoexec.bat ============== @echo off C:\SBPRO\DRV\MSCDEX.exe /V /D:MSCD001 /M:15 C:\dos\Smartdrv.exe 4096 16 Prompt $p$g Path c:\;C:\DOS;C:\Windows; set temp=c:\temp set tmp=c:\temp SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P SET COPYCMD=/V/-Y exit