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From: jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.misc
Subject: MODEL 30 DISK PROBLEM FIXED--SHARE.EXE was problem
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.171656.28621@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 90 17:16:56 GMT
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Well, folks, thanks for the ideas, but actually here is the break down on what
was actually the problem.  

I reformatted my harddisk using DOS 3.3 and tried to install using my
backup 720 KB disks. IT WORKED!  I then was finally able to get a hold of
Aldus Pagemaker, and asked them why the INSTALL.EXE program was not running
correctly under MS-DOS 4.01.  The told me that SHARE.EXE and INSTALL.EXE
don't get along and since the harddisk I had was >32 MB in size, the DOS 
automatically called SHARE.EXE.  He recommended I create a floppy system
disk and boot from it to get around the problem.  I decided to reformat and
reinstall DOS 4.01 AND create 2 20MB partitions instead of 1 40 MB.  Since
I did that, Pagemaker's INSTALL.EXE works, My Microsoft Excel (original disks)
also now install, AND my FASTBACK also works (it did not before).  

The MS-DOS manual says that if my HD > 32 MB then SHARE is automatically loaded
and that has also been said in several other threads here (which I had not
followed since until now, I only had DOS 3.3).  Now that it is not
loaded into memory I have had no more problems
--
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave.      --- Sir William Drummond

Michael Lanham       mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu   &  jumper@.catt.ncsu.edu