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by wmsec

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I downloaded & installed a driver for my system..I think it was for the soundblaster sound card..gameport driver... and now I get a message on boot that the extended memory file was already installed, did not install xms and a blinking cursor, I have tried to boot into windows with no success..keep getting the same message. I have chenged my slave drive to the master & the master to the slave, did a recovery on the slave so I can access the files on the other drive, but I have to re install all the programs to open anything not on the regular OS install,,microsoft office, games,lotus files...etc. how can I get windows to booton the ex-master hard drive ??

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by thechas

Use any "TEXT" editor to edit the files autoexec.bat and config.sys in the root of the former master drive.

Add the term rem and a space to the front of the lines for the soundblaster drivers.

The driver files loaded from these files are anly needed for DOS mode access. If you do not play DOS games, you do not need these files.
In fact, you may have the wrong version of the driver for your version of windows.

Chas

by fenaikh

hi

pls check if your config.sys file for having more than one line of these then. then put a rem in fornt of it then delete it after you could boot.

Good luck

Mohamed

by fenaikh

pls check if your config.sys file has more than one line of these lines then write a rem in front of it then delete it after you could boot succesfully.

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\emm386.exe NOEMS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\emm386.exe NOEMS

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