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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:09:59 EDT
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- From: msk9@PO.CWRU.EDU
- Subject: Re: Help! Bizarre System Error!
- In-Reply-To: Brian.Milner@BRUNEL.AC.UK Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:47:07 GMT
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- > This is for the second time of asking. The first time I used the subject
- > line: System Error Blues, so maybe it was too cryptic and no-one read it.
- > This time I'll call it "Help! Bizarre System Error."
- >
- > The Details - Standard Windows installation runs OK, until PC is
- > attached to the network. Then the message comes up:
- >
- > System Error
- > Cannot Read From Drive J.
- >
- > That is to say, boot PC, launch windows: Windows runs OK.
- > But boot PC, *attach to network*, launch windows: System error.
- >
- > I'm using a standard PC-NFS v4.0a attachment that had worked with
- > many other PCs just fine. Windows doesn't need to access drive J. when
- > launching, so why does it complain? MS Helpline say reinstall windows, but
- > I've done that and the results are identical.
- >
- > It used to say "Cannot Read From Drive H." until I changed
- > "Set temp=h:\" to "set temp=c:\" in the autoexec.bat. I've tried changing
- > the lastdrive=j line in config.sys to lastdrive=z, with no result.
- >
- > Any clues, anyone? Any miracle answers? Puullleessee?
- >
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- > |Brian Milner, The Computer Centre, Brunel University , West London, UK |
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- > |brian.milner@brunel.ac.uk | Failed films #27 - The Sound of Mucus |
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- Remove the lastdrive=j command from the config.sys or set it up such that the
- letter is before the drives that the network need to work. If you have any
- "subst" drives, remove them and try the network. If this is a novell type
- system, which we have over here, it is very notorious in the drive letters it
- wants to use.
- Setting the temp=H:\ to temp=c:\ freed that drive for the network to use.
- Further by using lastdrive=z, you're leaving the network no drives to work with.
-
- Hope this helps.
- Mahesh
-