Microsoft KB Archive/61100

Manually Installing Word 5.00 on a Floppy Drive

PSS ID Number: Q61100 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

To bypass the Word version 5.00 SETUP utility and manually install Word version 5.00 on a computer with dual floppy drives running DOS, perform the following steps (instructions are provided for 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks):

5.25 Inch, 360K Floppy Setup
  Format three blank 360K floppy disks.   Place the Word version 5.00 Program 1 disk in drive A and a blank formatted disk in drive B. At the A: prompt, type the following: COPY A:WORD.EXE B: (press ENTER) Label the disk in drive B “Program 1 Working Copy.”   Place the Word 5.00 Program 2 disk in drive A and a blank formatted disk in drive B. At the A: prompt, type the following: COPY A:WORD.OVL B: (press ENTER) Label the disk in drive B “Program 2 Working Copy.”   Place the appropriate printer disk in drive A and copy the correct printer driver file (PRD) to the Program 2 Working Copy disk in drive B. For example: COPY A:HPLASER.PRD B: (press ENTER)   Place the Word 5.00 Spell disk in drive A and a blank formatted disk in drive B and type the following: COPY A:SPELL.OVL B: (press ENTER) COPY A:SPELL-AM.LEX B: (press ENTER) Label the disk in drive B “Spell Working Copy.”   Place the Utilities 2 disk in drive A and use the MAKEVID utility to create the SCREEN.VID driver. The instructions for the MAKEVID utility are found in the MAKEVID.DOC on the Utilities 2 disk.   Place the Utilities 2 disk in drive A and the Program 1 Working Copy disk in drive B. Type the following: COPY A:SCREEN.VID B: (press ENTER)   Modify the CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS boot disk to include the following: FILES=20 (Minimum needed for Spell.) DEVICE=MOUSE.SYS (If used, include the correct path.) </li>  Reboot the computer and run Word. </li></ol>

3.5 Inch, 720K Floppy Setup
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;">  Format two blank 720K floppy disks. </li>  Place the Word 5.00 Program disk in drive A and a blank formatted disk in drive B and type the following: COPY A:WORD.EXE B: (press ENTER) COPY A:WORD.OVL B: (press ENTER) Put the appropriate printer disk in drive A and copy the correct printer driver file (PRD) to drive B. For example: COPY A:.PRD B: (press ENTER) Label the disk in drive B “Program Working Copy.” </li>  Place the Word 5.00 Spell disk in drive A and the other blank formatted disk in drive B and type the following: COPY A:SPELL.OVL B: (press ENTER) COPY A:SPELL-AM.LEX B: (press ENTER) COPY A:WFBG.SYN B: (press ENTER) Label the disk in drive B “Spell/Thesaurus Working Copy.” </li>  Place the Word 5.00 Utilities disk in drive A and use the MAKEVID utility to create the SCREEN.VID driver. The instructions for the MAKEVID utility are found in the MAKEVID.DOC on the Utilities disk. </li>  Place the Utilities disk in drive A and the Program 1 Working Copy disk in drive B. Type the following: COPY A:SCREEN.VID B: (press ENTER) </li>  Modify your CONFIG.SYS file to include the following: FILES=20 (Minimum needed for Spell.) DEVICE=MOUSE.SYS (If used, include the correct path.) </li>  Reboot the computer and run Word. </li></ol>

Word version 5.50 does not support the manual installation of its program files onto floppy diskettes. Word 5.50 files are compressed on the original disks, and the program file is too large to fit on one 360K or 720K diskette. If you want to use Word 5.50 from floppy disks, run Word’s Setup program and choose the “Set up floppy disk” option.

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