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Installinf DOS program under XP

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by dennisnewman

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During installation of a DOS prograqm using XP Professional the program does a check for disk space return a value of no space available and cancels the install

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by shiny_topadm

Hi, first I would check that the disk that you are attempting to install to is not using NTFS file system. Look at properties of the disk in question. A DOS program can't see such a partition. If needed, you may be able to create a small FAT32 partition for your purpose, but Windows won't allow you to convert from NTFS to FATx, so you'll need an app like Partition Magic to do that. What program? is it small enough to run from a floppy? good luck,

---Will

by dennisnewman

I've also tried a very small (300 meg) partition .The program does install onto DOS & Win 95-98 2000 machines just not XP

by tjc

most likely is that since XP is not 100% dos compatible the dos program is using an outdated method to determine disk space that xp no longer supports - try using the compatibility wizard on the setup program and see if that works - else you may end up isntalling it under dos/win98 etc and then copy the program and its support folders to a zip disk or someother media and transfer to the XP computer - but be aware the program may not run correctly either way.

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