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emm386 and devicehigh

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by impaintedman

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i just installed a 40gb harddrive and followed the instructions to the letter but if i dont use a bootdisk it does not load windows and after i have had it running for a while when i turn it off and come back to it later it comes up with a screen for scanreg and tells me there isnt enough free memory to complete the operation and that i need to load emm386 and add devicehigh to config.sys i have installed three other hard drives before this one and those went smoothly what am i doing wrong withthis one?

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by xanderoth

ensure that the following lines exist in the config.sys file on your local c: drive.

device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe /noems

If you are running windows95, consider putting devicehigh= in place of device=

by thechas

Scandisk running after each startup from a shutdown is propably a result of the hard drive cache not being cleared before the PC shuts off power to the drive. Look up the following MS knowledge base article. Sorry, I don't have the Q number.

Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package

As to the boot problem, unless you are running Windows 3.11, or an early version of W95, you should not need any lines in Config.sys
I would go so far as to rem out the lines in autoexec.bat until you resolve the problem.

If the error you get when you boot to the hard drive is insert boot disk and press enter to continue;
The hard drive was not properly setup as a boot drive.
Boot from the floppy, and type in
sys c:
from the command prompt.
You should now be able to boot from the hard drive.

You might also want to check if the BIOS settings for the drive and boot sequence are correct.

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