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From: bagron@cs.vu.nl (Rene Baart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DOS 3.21 --> 3.3 problems
Message-ID: <1286@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Jun 88 08:43:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ark.1286
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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I want to upgrade my MS-DOS from version 3.21 to version 3.3.
However, when I give the command "SYS C:", I get an error-message saying 
"not enough room for system on drive C:" (the hard disk has 7 Meg free).
I checked the sizes for the system files and the new 3.3 files are
indeed larger :
                     3.21         3.3   (*  these are proprietary TULIP
                     ----      ------       MS-DOS versions (Tulip has trans-
IO.SYS.............16,249......22,488       lated the IO.SYS system messages in
                                            Dutch).
MSDOS.SYS..........28,496......30,128      

One obvious solution would be to reformat the hard disk using 3.3, but I feel 
that there must be a SMARTER way to replace those system files (i.e. without 
reformatting or losing data). Does anyone know a SAFE way to get the SYS 
command to work ? If so, I'd be happy to hear about it.

P.S. I tried SYSing a version 3.21 DOS disk and it worked without any trouble. 
     Could it be that the "unfragment" program I ran on the hard disk has 
     squeezed the files so tight that there's simply no room left for 3.3 ? 

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