DOS Program On Zip Drive

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Hi,

I have Windows 2000, SP-4 + patches. My system recently lost a
hard drive (250GB 3 partitions - NTFS & a slave behind my ZIP
drive) and I finally got my backup to restore. When the system
restored, I was without the ability to run an old DOS
accounting program (check reconciliation) on a ZIP drive.
(None of the zip drive's data was within the backup.) This
program used to run on this system??

I receive this message when I try to run my ZIP disk based
program:

'C:\WINNT\system\config.nt. The system file is not suitable
suitable for running MS-DOS and Microscot Windows
applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.'

The buttons that appear are: Close and Ignore. I get the same
program termination regardless of the button I select.

I'd just like to be able to use the program again...BTW, I did
check the program's properties and they appear to be the same
prior to my hard disk crash.

I am sure that I've done something wrong but I don't know how
to fix my error.

TIA,

Jay
 
These articles may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889506

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| I have Windows 2000, SP-4 + patches. My system recently lost a
| hard drive (250GB 3 partitions - NTFS & a slave behind my ZIP
| drive) and I finally got my backup to restore. When the system
| restored, I was without the ability to run an old DOS
| accounting program (check reconciliation) on a ZIP drive.
| (None of the zip drive's data was within the backup.) This
| program used to run on this system??
|
| I receive this message when I try to run my ZIP disk based
| program:
|
| 'C:\WINNT\system\config.nt. The system file is not suitable
| suitable for running MS-DOS and Microscot Windows
| applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.'
|
| The buttons that appear are: Close and Ignore. I get the same
| program termination regardless of the button I select.
|
| I'd just like to be able to use the program again...BTW, I did
| check the program's properties and they appear to be the same
| prior to my hard disk crash.
|
| I am sure that I've done something wrong but I don't know how
| to fix my error.
|
| TIA,
|
| Jay
 
No idea what you're reading here.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| The KB 889506 instructed a change to a FileControl...The only
| set that was not a zero was the Windows95 entry. I changed
| that to a zero as well.
|
| Thank you Dave, I hope you hit it on its' head...
| Will reboot and see.
|
| Jay
 
No idea what you're reading here.
Click to expand...
Sorry Dave. I read the KB article and it referred to two
items. One was to go to Start/Control Panel/System/
Environment Variables/ and make certain that both TMP and
TEMP were directed to C:/WINNT/Temp...they are. The other
was to go to a Registry Key and make certain that the DOS
8.3 filename was a zero rather than a one. The key was
already zero except for Windows 95 and I changed it to
a zero.
 
These articles may also apply.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=156687
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...nt/4/server/proddocs/en-us/concept/xcpab.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305521
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;165214&sd=tech.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q161564
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;103656&sd=tech
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q142271/

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Sorry Dave. I read the KB article and it referred to two
| items. One was to go to Start/Control Panel/System/
| Environment Variables/ and make certain that both TMP and
| TEMP were directed to C:/WINNT/Temp...they are. The other
| was to go to a Registry Key and make certain that the DOS
| 8.3 filename was a zero rather than a one. The key was
| already zero except for Windows 95 and I changed it to
| a zero.
 
These articles may also apply.
Click to expand...
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Yahooo!!

Thank you very much Dave. I was a little unsure when one of
the KB articles showed a reference to XP but I went through
the steps and voila my old accounting program works.

As we say around here: I appreciate ya!!

Jay
 
Super! Glad to hear it's resolved. You're welcome.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Yahooo!!
|
| Thank you very much Dave. I was a little unsure when one of
| the KB articles showed a reference to XP but I went through
| the steps and voila my old accounting program works.
|
| As we say around here: I appreciate ya!!
|
| Jay
 
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