unbent@uncecs.edu (Jay F. Rosenberg) (08/17/90)
The system: Austin 386-20, 20 MHz 386
Phoenix BIOS 1.10.10
2 MB RAM
40 MB WD 93044-A IDE Hard Disk
Paradise Autoswitch EGA 480
The problem: Repeated failure to successfully install Windows 3.0
on my D: drive. (HD is configured as two 20 MB drives, C: and D:) The last
attempt necessitated a reformat of D:. Principal symptoms: (1) Successive
installation attempts ate progressively more disk space, despite my having
erased their predecessors. The last shot used circa 9 MB. (2) Inability to
run MS Word 5.0 in 386 enhanced mode. The error message that flashed by
read something to the effect of "Incorrect SCREEN.VID". That's Word's
screen driver -- and I of course had the correct one in the Word startup
directory.
A specific question: My system is described as having an "Intel
80385 cache controller chip running 32K-64K static RAM cache @ 25
nanoseconds". Is this getting in the way of things that Windows wants to
do?
A general question: Any ideas as to what's going on here, and what
I can do about it? I'd like to be able to take advantage of the (reputed)
wonders of Windows 3.
And we thank you for your support.... Jay Rosenberg
(unbent@ecsvax.BITNET)
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unbent@ecsvax.UUCP unbent@ecsvax.BITNET unbent@unc.BITNET tonyd@hplsla.HP.COM (Tony DeMartino) (08/21/90)
Jay, I seem to remember raeding something in the readme file that came with windows 3.0 about it only supporting partitions on your hard disk that were done with the DOS Fdisk utility. It strongly discouraged from using third party partitioning utilities. Something else that comes to mind about the installation using so much disk space is that Windows may not be deleting it's temp files if you are not leaving windows gracefully. You can view these so called static files with Norton Utilities. They are usually hidden and you need some help in finding them. I believe one is in the root directory and one is in the \windows\temp directory. Just a few thing to consider. ----------