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From: peper1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (J. Christian A. Peper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with sys
Keywords: upgrade sys hidden files
Message-ID: <20028@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 16:42:01 GMT
References: <4495@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: peper1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (J. Christian A. Peper)
Organization: The Netherlands
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In article aj5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Basden) writes:
>    I'm having some trouble upgrading from PC-DOS 3.1 to MS-DOS 3.3 on 
>my 386 clone.  When I try to sys my hard drive, I get a 'not enough
>room' error.  I suspect that this is because the hidden files are
>bigger in 3.3,  but I thought that the hidden dos and bios files no longer
>had to be contiguous.
>    Any suggestions on how I can do this without reformating my 80 meg
>hard drive?

i had the same problem with a 3.5" disk. even though it said there was
1.2Meg free, I could not do a "c:sys a:".
t gave me the same error msg.

Chris.
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