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To: thecow who wrote (12988)	11/4/2000 6:14:33 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

hey tc that's tough having to reformat. but leave it to you to find the positive side. <g> sounds like the little brush with danger i had ( #reply-14644199 ) where i was able to boot to windows via my jaz rescue disks and let norton repair the damage. i sure felt like a genius for having diligently kept up with the updates. i really wonder what the heck happened with your machine? :) mark

To: thecow who wrote (12988)	11/4/2000 7:11:17 PM
From: Fargonaut	Respond to of 110652

tc, My system got trashed recently and since I run PQ Disk Image I thought I was covered. I couldn't get anything on my C: drive to work, including Drive Image, so I slipped in my floppy and proceeded to run Disk Image from there. I found the backup file, pointed it to the C: drive, and set it all up to restore. Then, on the final keystroke, it failed. The main executable (PQDI.exe) requires lots of memory, and apparently I didn't have enough. So I had to learn how to load DOS high (I'm still a beginner) and cut down on the stuff I didn't need. .BIN files had to go, since I don't use DriveSpace, and they get loaded into low memory whether you need them or not. I put in EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS, and put DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=EMM386.EXE DOS=HIGH,UMB in the CONFIG.SYS file. And of course system files. I booted with that, then put in the floppy with PQDI.EXE, and it worked. I made my original startup floppies on W95 (have W98 now) so even my version of DOS was wrong. Probably you won't have all or any of these problems, but I guess all I'm saying here is be sure your floppies are completely functional before you need to use them. Frank