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From: ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Help installing Hyperdisk (was: Norton cache and Windows)
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Date: 5 Mar 91 07:42:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com's message of 28 Feb 91 23:34:08 GMT


After reading the posts about Hyperdisk I went and pulled it off of
wuarchive and tried it out. It does work MUCH faster than smartdrv,
after using NCACHE I was very disheartened by the poor performance of
smartdrv but stuck with it since it was compatible with Windows v3.0.

I have a question for those who succesfully use it with windows though:

	In the WIN3NOTE.TXT it says the Hyperdisk should be
	installed AFTER himem.sys. I tried this but Hyperdisk comes
	back and tells me that no extended memory is available, and
	thus doesn't install. Any clues? Right now I just install it
	before HIMEM.SYS and it seems to work correctly but I'm not
	sure if it's in windows compatible mode.

And yes I did briefly read through the manual but find it hard to read
through 80 pages of text 24 lines at a time and don't have the time or
paper to print it out on my little dot-matrix printer.

I'm using HYPER386.EXE on a PS/2 55sx (386sx) with 4Mb of extended
memory with the command line options "S H CW:1024".

Thanks for the help,
--
Gary Hennigan
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