I Have Some System Info I Need Interpreted...

[Rob Schulte]

Hello,
I posted below about a week ago about system info on Windows 3.1. Thanks to All who posted. It appears it is a pretty good machine, 486SX, 33Mhz, 170 MB Harddrive, 4Mb memory as far as the stickers on the bottom of machine. But I need help dechipering the MSD Report.

C: Fixed Disk, CMOS Type 48
91M free 236M total
H: Fixed Disk, CMOS Type 0 14M free 162M total
LASTDRIVE=H:

Full system report will be at http://www.members.staroffice.com/www/robschulte If anyone is interested in full specs.
Does this mean the drive is partitioned & if so is it necessary? & if I departitioned the drive how would I go about it without a copy of the OS? Or does it mean there are actually two hardrives. I know H: was labeled Host_for_C or something.

I thought about downloading a copy Calmira at http://www.calmira.org
to make the interface easier to work in, but is this a good idea with a partitioned Hardrive when the free space looks to be split pretty even.

Thank You for Any Input,
Rob




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Do or Do Not. There is no Try.

[Rob Schulte]

Sorry about the website, the correct link is
http://members.staroffice.com/www/robschulte


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Do or Do Not. There is no Try.

[AlaricD]

Neither link worked for me-- but it appears that your hard drive is compressed with DBLSPACE or DRVSPACE, the DOS 6.x compression utility. This is why you have what looks like two fixed disks-- there is only one, the H: is the actual disk which bears a compressed image of the files that you access through C:. It's sortof like H: is a giant .ZIP but you're allowed to work with the files directly as if they were uncompressed on C:.

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Am386DX-40 + Cx387DX-40
32MB, 128KB cache
(2) 540MB HD's
8x CD
2MB Video
SB16 PnP
DR-DOS 7.04
Win3.11 w/ Win32s
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Just because it's unusual doesn't make it a virus!
Ping is NOT an acronym!

[2damncommon]

Neither link worked for me, either.
Your system sounds quite a bit like one I installed Calmira on myself.
Calmira is very useful if you or other users are more familar with a Win98 type interface; or if you prefer that type of features.

P.S.
And as you are stuck with DOS or Win 3.1 with that speed computer; I found this book useful: http://www.ddcpub.com/htmlnew/results3.asp?id=274
Very basic, do and learn; if you need it.

[This message has been edited by 2damncommon (edited 03-13-2002).]