Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!yev_g
From: yev_g@athena.mit.edu (Yevgeny Gurevich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problems with DOS 4.01?
Keywords: Windows DOS
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.172722.10058@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:27:22 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.225000.8188@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 30

In article <1991Jan14.225000.8188@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM writes:
>I have a small problem.  I went and got a copy of DOS 4.01, took my heart
>in my hand, backed up my system, reformatted and restored, and then tried
>to run windows.  It wouldn't run!  That is, when I start Windows it displays
>the Microsoft title page and then, after doing some work, drops to a DOS
>prompt.  Sigh.  I tried reinstalling Windows, although not in a fresh 
>directory.
>>
>I installed DOS with the default setup, removing ANSI.SYS, leaving the
>FASTFILE (or whatever it is) stuff, and adding HIMEM.SYS in config.sys.
>I confess that I have not done a lot of reading in the DOS User Guide
>as yet, so if the answer is RTFM, please be gentle!  :^>
>
>Anyone have any pointers?
>

I am running Windows 3.0 under DOS 4.01 without any problem.  But then again,
it was the original OS on the HD.

You might check your DOS directory to make sure that there are no dos files
which are leftovers of the previous version.  Try removing FASTOPEN.  It seems
that it conflicts with SMARTDRV if it is loaded.
[============================================================================]
[ Yevgeny Gurevich        | yev_g@athena.mit.edu        \.\...]...........// ]
[ 500 Memorial Drive      |                              \.\..]..........//  ]
[ Cambridge, Mass. 02139  |                               \.\.].........//   ]
[ ========================|                                \.\]__......//    ]
[ "Tech is Hell!"                                           |.]__\..../|     ]
[===========================================================|.]...\../.|=====]
                                                            |_]____\/__|