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windows 3.1 won load
Name: derrick m Date: September 29, 2002 at 16:05:51 Pacific OS: windows 3.1 CPU/Ram: 32mb ram
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hi, i have an old zenith computer and i wanted to do a refresh of all the software and i went to reinstall windows 3.1 and the program dosent want to accept the c drive as a place to install to software to and i have to run dos from the a drive and i don't know if that has something to do with is but i need to have a working computer somehow.
Name: Hmmm Date: September 29, 2002 at 16:46:35 Pacific
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What did you use to format the drive? A win98 boot disk?
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Response Number 2
Name: Ghostman1 Date: September 30, 2002 at 15:26:25 Pacific
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You don't install windows under C:\ drive, You install windows 3.1 under A:\ setup... After you setup Dos....
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Response Number 3
Name: nick Date: September 30, 2002 at 18:15:36 Pacific
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Very confusingly phrased question, but I think I can help. Firstly ,it sounds like youre trying to run dos offof the a drive.Unless Dos is fully installed on your C drive (in C:\DOS) you can forget about trying to install windows. Secondly, if for some reason it wont install and you do have dos on there, perhaps you have an upgrade version of windows (to be quite honest, I dont know if there is such a thing for 31) but if it is, you can expand some core files to C:\windows (make the directory C:\windows and then the subdirectory C:\windows system - .expand win.ve_ (renaming to win.ver) to windows and expand gdi.ex_ and krnl386.ex_ (renamed with e substituted for _ ), and windows will probably think its an upgrade. I should mention that ive never had to do this myself,and the tip was for a different version of windows, but the principle remains the same. OK?
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