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by laddie

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loaded win 3.1 and dos 6.22. now get loading "ms-dos", "syntax error", "c:\" then i can go " cd windows" then "win" and it loads windows 3.1, but how do i find the problem and how do i fix it with out reloading??????

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by still_learning

You probably have something mispelled in the Autoexec.bat file. You will have to look there and correct it. If you need further assistance, submit another question with the contents of this file and the config.sys file.

by cg it

Personally, I think you should get rid of that 3rd party partitioning software. That may be causing your whole problem.

by cg it

To clarify why I think you should remove that 3rd party partition software is that [I may be wrong][but i've had to do it myself] if you are using upgrades through Windows XP from Windows 3.1 , if you ever have to reinstall Windows again, your gonnago through the whole weird process of the O/S not seeing the hard drive due to what's in the MBR. Why go through that? you can launch the partition utilities after you've installed the O/S and most partition utilities are nothing more than a boot disk with Fdisk and a really good set of graphical users interfaces. Just a thought. (I really believe if you get rid of it, your problems will go away.)

by john

You might try looking in your autoexec.bat file. See if there is other things in there, besides the windows 'loading' commands. You can run the commands in the autoexec.bat file manually at a command prompt. There may simply be a syntax error in one of the instructions, not specifically in regard to windows, ie: cd rom, himem or doshigh, files, buffers, etc.

Hope this helps,
John
jpotts@glsnetworksolutions.com

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