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Problems Installing MS-DOS 6.21 Upgrade over Novell DOS 7

Article ID: 114359

Article Last Modified on 11/21/1999



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q114359

SYMPTOMS

If you attempt to upgrade from Novell DOS 7 to MS-DOS 6.21 and you have compressed your C drive, you receive the following error message

There is not enough free space on drive C to install MS-DOS. You cannot install MS-DOS unless your computer has at least 4,200,000 bytes of free disk space on drive C. Exit Setup, and move or delete unneeded files from the drive. For more information about freeing disk space, see 'Diagnosing and Solving Problems.'

CAUSE

MS-DOS 6.21 Setup was not tested with Novell DOS 7 and is not designed to be installed over Novell DOS 7. If you have Novell DOS 7 installed and your C drive is compressed, you cannot run MS-DOS 6.21 Setup.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, uninstall your Novell DOS 7 compression and then install MS-DOS 6.21.


Additional query words: netware 7.0 removed

Keywords: KB114359