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From: korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: help - windows and disk manager problem ??
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.165316.20888@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 16:53:16 GMT
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In article <26860@boulder.Colorado.EDU> scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Marty Scholes) writes:
>In article <12787@encore.Encore.COM> knowlton@xenna.encore.com writes:
>>                                          Does anybody know
>>how to fix this problem without going to DOS 4.01 ??
>
>                                                  I would be VERY interested
>in knowing how I can get around this problem short of going to DOS 4.01

Why is everyone so afraid of going to DOS 4.01?  I use it and it causes
no problems whatsoever.  (Except I can't seem to run windows version 1.1)

>(I'm not sure what it would take to change OS's and the partitions, but
>I imagine that it would require a backup, and playing games with 200 megs
>of data just doesn't seem all that fun).

One would think that with 200 megs worth of data you would have a backup
available for the day when your drive does crash.  I can understand not
wanting to change operating systems, but not having a backup is foolish.

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