> Beats the stuffing out of me. I'm stumped. I've > had similar problems when moving a drive with > Win95 to a new PC or when changing motherboards, but > I've always just reinstalled Windows to fix it. ;)
Ok, first time I've seen you write that! :) Try converting a dos-card C: hardfile to use with VPC, using Hard drive expander: Frist thing is that the process takes some time. The end result being Properies of the Windows folder claim an invisible folder extra on the converted file though I can't find it, I have looked. Apart from this wierdness the only other thing I can find changed are the "system.dat and system.da0" files in the windows folder. These files are 12kb larger. The root dir has 21, "file00--.chk" files added, maybe temp files from the conversion? These total 168k-8k each. The overall useage of the hardfile is about 500k less than the origanal file but I can't easily find where this space has come from or gone to. Loaded as C: on the dos-card, this drive fails to boot claiming the more familiar "Invaild system, please insert disk" message. This is an improvement atleast > At any rate, you'll need different drive images for > VPC and the DOS card because they have different > hardware (well, VPC has not-so-hard ware) which > will require different drivers for each. Upon loading the converted file in to VPC, windows finds and loads drivers for everything. Thanks for the pre-warning as everything includes the cdrom drive and the install files from the win95 cd copyied to another hardfile loaded as D: is very useful here. I'm hopeful a fix using the system-profile before file conversion might be a work around > Do you have USB on your Mac and USB support in VPC? > That'll really foul up Win95B if you try to use the > drive on a PC without USB. Win98/98SE it doesn't > bother. Yes but it isn't loaded, we still use dot matrix and deskjets here. :) A usb optical mouse and verious joysticks will be the extent of usb for this machine for a while longer. system.dat? system.da0 would be the backup? I'll copy them over to a pc and have a look -- Mac-N-DOS is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac-N-DOS list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-n-dos.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-n-dos%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
