Microsoft KB Archive/115204

= Err Msg Creating Uninstall Disk: Bad Uninstall Disk... =

Article ID: 115204

Article Last Modified on 11/22/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q115204



SYMPTOMS
When you use 360-kilobyte (K) 5.25-inch floppy disks as your Uninstall disks during installation of MS-DOS 6.22, you run out of disk space on the second disk. As a result, you receive the following error message:

Bad Uninstall disk, press ENTER to exit

After you receive the above error, the only option available is to exit Setup.

NOTE: This problem occurs only when you install MS-DOS 6.22 over MS-DOS 6.22.



CAUSE
Since Uninstall now backs up the DRVSPACE.BIN and DRVSPACE.INI file in addition to DBLSPACE.BIN and DBLSPACE.INI, more disk space is required on the Uninstall disks. This problem occurs when you have both DoubleSpace and DriveSpace volumes, large CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and you use 360K floppy disks for your Uninstall disks.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, reduce the size of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, or convert all DoubleSpace drives to DriveSpace drives.

Additional query words: low density

Keywords: KB115204

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