Microsoft KB Archive/28896

Works 1.x and 2.0: System Disk Stops

PSS ID Number: Q28896 Article last modified on 06-12-1996

1.00 1.05 2.00

MS-DOS

Summary:

If you attempt to install Works 2.0 on a 5.25-inch system disk, you will receive the error message, “There isn’t enough room on your working copy disk for the required Works files.” If you continue with Setup, your working copy will not have all the files it needs to run correctly.

In Works 1.x, if you attempt to install on a 5.25-inch system disk, you will receive the error message, “File error: SETUP could not write a file named B:.EXE.”

This is only a problem with 360K 5.25-inch disks. On high density 5.25-inch system disks, Works 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0 install correctly.

Works 3.0 does not install on a blank formatted 360K disk – there is not enough room on the disk.

More Information:

These error messages appear because you don’t have enough room on your system disk for the necessary Works program files. You will be unable to run Works from a 5.25-inch system disk because the existence of the command interpreter file, COMMAND.COM and the hidden system files, leave insufficient disk space to run Works on a 360K disk. The Setup utility (in Works 1.x or 2.0) installs files correctly on a blank, formatted 360K disk.

KBCategory: kbsetup kberrmsg KBSubcategory: dworkskb

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