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From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MS DOS 5 problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.132342.1861@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 13:23:42 GMT
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I just set up MS DOS 5 on my box and am having some problems getting DOS
to load high.  I have a 286 w/ 4MB RAM, 80MB of hard disk.  What I did was
initially re-low-level formatted the drive, then used DOS 5 fdisk to set
up partitions, then formatted.  (I used to be using DOS 3.3 and some
ancient disk partitioning software, which I wanted to get rid of, for it
used up RAM, and was no longer really necessary).  So my hard disk is totally
clean.  In the config.sys file, I put the commands :
	device = himem.sys
	dos=high
	files=20
	buffers=40
and that's it.  When  the computer boots up, Himem returns a message saying
"High Memory Area Available", but when it attempts to load dos high, I get
an error message saying "HMA not available, loading dos low".  What gives
here ?  Any ideas?  Or should I just bite the bullet and call MS tech 
support and wait on the phone for 30minutes to an hour for a technician? :-)

Thanks

Andy Cook
acook@athena.mit.edu