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Autoexec.bat & Config.sys in Win98
Hi all,,,,
I now have two O/S's, one on my Cdrive, and one on another partitioned drive. I am very happy. I do have one question that sees me sitting in win98 too afraid to reboot. First, my computer as it was:::::::: Cdrive = Win98 O/S Ddrive = Autocad only. Edrive = Playground and where all things get downloaded to. My computer now:::::: Cdrive = Win98 Ddrive = Old Edrive(my playground. nothing is missing, its all there) The above is when I boot to Win98. My computer now 2::::::::::: Cdrive = Win98 Ddrive = Where XP resides Edrive = Edrive. XP can see everything and also go into any file or folder regarding Win98; and as you all know, it is reversed when using Win98, it cannot see XP(I am using NTFS for xp). So, the point here and my question, is "Associations"! Due to the fact that all of my "playground" stuff now has a different Drive-letter as far as Win98 is concerned, (it sees all of the Edrive stuff, except via the letter 'D'), I had to go into the Properties of Every Icon on my desktop and change the path from E to D............. the instant I did this all of my icons reverted to their original state. Was nice to do a simple problem-fix, even if it did take a while to re-assign the path. Now, to TWO things that I am NOT real sure about, the ones that I am in here for. I have a folder called 'ResourceTools' and a Utility called '4Dos'. Both of these are Dos orientated and now due to the fact that their paths have changed, (but only from the point of view of the Drive letter they aim at) they too need 'altering'. These two items are Both things that have 'Associations' in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. They are also Both pointing to the wrong Drive-Letter. As with the Icon Properties paths that needed to be changed, I believed the above files would need to be changed too. (I say this primarily because I now believe it is why I get the msg "Command.com cannot be found or it is Corrupt" on boot-up of Win98. So, my question is to the 'rules' of EDITING Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. This is what I have done so far. I went into my Cdrive (in win98) and simply right clicked on Autoexec.bat and took off the attributes. I then sent it to Notepad and simply changed the Drive letter it was pointing to for the New one it Should point to. Saved it, then closed it.............. simple Next, I went to "Run, Msconfig" then brought up the config.sys tab, then highlighted the offending line, clicked on Edit, and simply changed the Driver letter there too to reflect the obvious. Now, we up to me typing. I dont want to Reboot yet until I hear from one of you guys saying that what I have done in editing the above files is okay. I have never Edited a Config.sys file before and I want to be sure. I am a tad worried that if I reboot, and something is amiss, I wont be able to get back here (I am in Win98 right now, due to the fact that it is the only o/s with a modem and connection to the internet via my ISP) to the newsgroups to trouble-shoot. Boy, I hope I typed all of the above in a way that can be understood, I put a lot of effort and thought into it. thanks guys........ I'll wait for a reply before I reboot to see if I edited correctly. regards Jane |
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btw, I still like 98 better and am only using xp for familiarity purposes as mentioned prior. (will someone here please update Dan on that, he seems a little void of capiching) regards Jane |
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I hear you Jane but I still am greatly intimated by you. I am only one small
man who hopefully can change the world little by little. I do not understand when people become too strong-willed and it makes me want to withdraw. BTW, Goodnight -- signing off for the night from Tucson, Arizona. "jane" wrote in message ... : : : btw, I still like 98 better and am only : using xp for familiarity purposes as : mentioned prior. : (will someone here please update Dan : on that, he seems a little void of capiching) : : regards Jane : : |
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" I hear you Jane but I still am greatly intimated by you. HUH??? I sure hope you aint "i-n-t-i-m-a-t-e-d" by me, or you got a lot of answering to do. you is one strange cookie. regards Jane |
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Autoexec and config are not needed by W98 to boot. It is possible to alter
either file and cause the boot to hang but should that happen, you can boot in safe mode and undo the changes. You could also use a start up floppy disk and rename the files. If you are going to continue to dual boot, I suggest you get a proper boot manager that will not break when you do system work. I use: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. One of the things you could have done with BING is hide the W98 partition when XP boots and there would have been no drive letter problem. Or, you could have created a second primary partition and loaded XP to it. That way C: drive would always be the system you are using, D: and E: would be the logical partitions and F: would have been the other operating system. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "jane" wrote in message ... Hi all,,,, I now have two O/S's, one on my Cdrive, and one on another partitioned drive. I am very happy. I do have one question that sees me sitting in win98 too afraid to reboot. First, my computer as it was:::::::: Cdrive = Win98 O/S Ddrive = Autocad only. Edrive = Playground and where all things get downloaded to. My computer now:::::: Cdrive = Win98 Ddrive = Old Edrive(my playground. nothing is missing, its all there) The above is when I boot to Win98. My computer now 2::::::::::: Cdrive = Win98 Ddrive = Where XP resides Edrive = Edrive. XP can see everything and also go into any file or folder regarding Win98; and as you all know, it is reversed when using Win98, it cannot see XP(I am using NTFS for xp). So, the point here and my question, is "Associations"! Due to the fact that all of my "playground" stuff now has a different Drive-letter as far as Win98 is concerned, (it sees all of the Edrive stuff, except via the letter 'D'), I had to go into the Properties of Every Icon on my desktop and change the path from E to D............. the instant I did this all of my icons reverted to their original state. Was nice to do a simple problem-fix, even if it did take a while to re-assign the path. Now, to TWO things that I am NOT real sure about, the ones that I am in here for. I have a folder called 'ResourceTools' and a Utility called '4Dos'. Both of these are Dos orientated and now due to the fact that their paths have changed, (but only from the point of view of the Drive letter they aim at) they too need 'altering'. These two items are Both things that have 'Associations' in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. They are also Both pointing to the wrong Drive-Letter. As with the Icon Properties paths that needed to be changed, I believed the above files would need to be changed too. (I say this primarily because I now believe it is why I get the msg "Command.com cannot be found or it is Corrupt" on boot-up of Win98. So, my question is to the 'rules' of EDITING Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. This is what I have done so far. I went into my Cdrive (in win98) and simply right clicked on Autoexec.bat and took off the attributes. I then sent it to Notepad and simply changed the Drive letter it was pointing to for the New one it Should point to. Saved it, then closed it.............. simple Next, I went to "Run, Msconfig" then brought up the config.sys tab, then highlighted the offending line, clicked on Edit, and simply changed the Driver letter there too to reflect the obvious. Now, we up to me typing. I dont want to Reboot yet until I hear from one of you guys saying that what I have done in editing the above files is okay. I have never Edited a Config.sys file before and I want to be sure. I am a tad worried that if I reboot, and something is amiss, I wont be able to get back here (I am in Win98 right now, due to the fact that it is the only o/s with a modem and connection to the internet via my ISP) to the newsgroups to trouble-shoot. Boy, I hope I typed all of the above in a way that can be understood, I put a lot of effort and thought into it. thanks guys........ I'll wait for a reply before I reboot to see if I edited correctly. regards Jane |
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"Ron Badour" wrote in message ... Autoexec and config are not needed by W98 to boot. It is possible to alter either file and cause the boot to hang but should that happen, you can boot in safe mode and undo the changes. You could also use a start up floppy disk and rename the files. Rats. you missed the point and gist of what is going on in my comp. I just want to know if it was okay to allocate the changes I made, especially considering I have 4DOS whose path expects it to be the same as Prior to my XP install. I hear what you are saying Ron, but do you hear what I am saying too? This isnt about a better boot manager, or a fantastic partition maker, its simply about whether or whether not I edited the two files mentioned in a proper way. regards Jane |
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Do you know, I have had this question floating in the n/g's for
over TEN hours now, and not one single reply has said::::::::::: "YES", you have done it correctly, or NO, you idiot, you have done it wrong. These answers were the only two I was looking for. regards Jane |
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It's the latter, Jane. Sort of.
Let me see if I can simplify the question, first. You have a volume with a changed drive letter, and in Win98, you can't force a specific drive letter onto a hard disk volume. There are references to components on that volume that got broken by changing the drive letter. You have edited a relative few of those pointers to point to the new location. There's a lot more that need to be changed. As for Config.sys, you appear to have changed it properly. So reboot and test it. And then continue in your possibly futile effort to change all those pointers. (There will be *lots* of those changes needed in the Registry, and there are often lots of other such pointers in other configuration files.) Or, undo the changes you've made, then use a partition tool to shrink your Win98 partition just a bit and add a new D:\ drive. If you can afford 2 GB, you can make that the TEMP, where you house TEMP and Temporary Internet Files, using a couple of lines in Autoexec.bat and changing a setting in Internet Options. That way, what was E:\ will remain E:\. PS--The first post I see in this thread (or anywhere else, on this topic) was at 1:06 AM Pacific Standard time. The last post, complaining about 10 hours having gone by, shows as being posted at 4:10, a scant three hours later. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "jane" wrote in message ... Do you know, I have had this question floating in the n/g's for over TEN hours now, and not one single reply has said::::::::::: "YES", you have done it correctly, or NO, you idiot, you have done it wrong. These answers were the only two I was looking for. regards Jane |
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Jane have you ever heard of *sleep* *time differences* and *work* ?? A good
majority of people who help in these ng's are either in the US or UK. You can be so damn rude and demanding sometimes and I cannot believe you haven't been plonked by now, I've seen people plonked for less. I don't know what your game is or whether you're a very clever troll but you have made this ng unbearable to view at times. Time and time again people have given you instructions and asked you questions most of which are ignored. The majority of threads in this ng for the past few months are all started by you....enough already!! Do you know how to use a search engine? Ever heard of Google? As for your current BS I don't know and I don't care and even if I did know I wouldn't help you. "jane" wrote: Do you know, I have had this question floating in the n/g's for over TEN hours now, and not one single reply has said::::::::::: "YES", you have done it correctly, or NO, you idiot, you have done it wrong. These answers were the only two I was looking for. regards Jane |
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You missed my point--if by chance you did make a mistake or something else
you might not have considered needed to be done, it is easily fixed by one of the two methods I mentioned. So, you reboot and see how it works. I mentioned the boot manager merely because the NT boot loader is fragile--if you don't want to take my advice--don't. I will just avoid your posts in the future so I won't bother you. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "jane" wrote in message ... "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... Autoexec and config are not needed by W98 to boot. It is possible to alter either file and cause the boot to hang but should that happen, you can boot in safe mode and undo the changes. You could also use a start up floppy disk and rename the files. Rats. you missed the point and gist of what is going on in my comp. I just want to know if it was okay to allocate the changes I made, especially considering I have 4DOS whose path expects it to be the same as Prior to my XP install. I hear what you are saying Ron, but do you hear what I am saying too? This isnt about a better boot manager, or a fantastic partition maker, its simply about whether or whether not I edited the two files mentioned in a proper way. regards Jane |
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