I don't think there is one. Sorry! BTW, you said that Drive D: is funny. Does it work properly? If you try DIR on that drive, do you get a listing? If not, try using FORMAT to reformat the drive. A long time ago, I had a Win98SE tower and tried several times to partition and format the drive only to realize that the hard drive will only give me 2.1GB formatted when it was supposed to give me ~20GB. If you need help, try FORMAT /?.

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 20:57:

I don't think there is one. Sorry! BTW, you said that Drive D: is funny. Does it work properly? If you try DIR on that drive, do you get a listing? If not, try using FORMAT to reformat the drive. A long time ago, I had a Win98SE tower and tried several times to partition and format the drive only to realize that the hard drive will only give me 2.1GB formatted when it was supposed to give me ~20GB. If you need help, try FORMAT /?.

Well, it's being funny as it was showing up twice in Windows. But I think I do need to reformat it. I just don't want to lose what's on there. I'll try creating an image file first, if I can, but failing that, I guess I will have to. But yeah, DIR works on it. It recognises the right capacity at least.

Well...if you can't image the drive, I recommend that you use a compression utility such as PKZip or DOSRAR to compress the contents of Drive D: that you want to preserve to another hard drive or removable media. This would take up less space than a full image of the drive. In the end, it might take more work, though.

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 22:08:

Well...if you can't image the drive, I recommend that you use a compression utility such as PKZip or DOSRAR to compress the contents of Drive D: that you want to preserve to another hard drive or removable media. This would take up less space than a full image of the drive. In the end, it might take more work, though.

Ah. It's worth a shot though. But I guess it depends on how much work... ^^;

Probably not much more work, as either way, the work is probably pretty involved.

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 22:21:

Probably not much more work, as either way, the work is probably pretty involved.

Is it a similar process as making an image using GHOST?

I don't know, as I never imaged a drive nor did I ever use GHOST. Sorry.

Anyway, I came back to the PC after leaving it for a couple of hours, and backing it up as an image isn't viable. It only completed 25%. It would be crazy big to back up. So compressing it would be the next best thing to try.

On the plus side, after quitting and loading back into Windows, the D drive is back to normal! It no longer has two showing. 😁

Good! 😁 Are you ready to try out my suggestions regarding DOS memory?

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 23:18:

Good! 😁 Are you ready to try out my suggestions regarding DOS memory?

Is that this one...?

When/if you reenable EMM386, you can try the "I=B000-B7FF" and "HIGHSCAN" switches: the former uses the VGA's mono graphics buffer for UMBs, as they're hardly ever used, and the latter performs an extra scan for more UMB space. I see you are using the normal mouse driver and have a reference to CuteMouse REMmed out. Try using CuteMouse instead. If you're still low on UMBs, you can Google QEMM: it has ways to significantly increase the amount of UMBs on your system and. if that's enough, has two Stealth ROM features where some ROMs can be replaced with RAM and switched back to ROM upon access and replace the RAM afterwards.

Yes. That's the one. 😀

I'll give that a try now. 😀

I suppose one thing I could look into, regarding the backup of that hard drive's contents, is to get one of those USB to IDE cables and try and extract the data on my main PC.

It just says EMM386 not installed.

Well...you could purchase an IOMEGA Zip100 drive. Its disks seem to support ~95.7MB. They come in IDE, Parallel, USB and SCSI interfaces. I used to have Parallel ones, but I broke them, and my mother, who holds the computers for me, is homeless. They should be available on eBay. If you get a Parallel one, you can find a better driver for it at https://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm in the utilities section named Palmsys. It is much smaller than the default Guest driver included by default and is probably more compatible than Guest. On one of my computers, it only worked sometimes, but other people online didn't seem to have hat problem. The problem is that it probably won't work on modern computers--unless you get a USB one.

Well...reenable EMM386 and try the RAM switch. 😀

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 23:54:

Well...you could purchase an IOMEGA Zip100 drive. Its disks seem to support ~95.7MB. They come in IDE, Parallel, USB and SCSI interfaces. I used to have Parallel ones, but I broke them, and my mother, who holds the computers for me, is homeless. They should be available on eBay. If you get a Parallel one, you can find a better driver for it at https://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm in the utilities section named Palmsys. It is much smaller than the default Guest driver included by default and is probably more compatible than Guest. On one of my computers, it only worked sometimes, but other people online didn't seem to have hat problem. The problem is that it probably won't work on modern computers--unless you get a USB one.

Hmm. Not heard of or come across those before. It's something to look into, but I suspect it'll be faster accessing the contents on my main PC and (hopefully) copying them on there momentarily. The amount of space the images I had/have on there would take forever to transfer using older hardware, wouldn't it?

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-23, 23:56:

Well...reenable EMM386 and try the RAM switch. 😀

I believe it was. I've tried C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EMM386.EXE ON, DEVICE=C:\WINDOW\HIMEM.SYS and DOS=HIGH,UMB. I've also tried setting LASTDRIVE to E, G, C and D. But if I have the CD inserted on boot, and that loads up before my autoexec and config files are run, none of those commands are going to have any effect. ^^; I've tried running the CD after the command prompt has initialised everything, but I've not been able to get it to boot the utility up.

Regarding an IDE to USB adapter - my fear, if I get one, is if my main PC will ask me to reformat the drive once I've plugged it in.

If you insert the CD after startup, does it work?

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-24, 11:14:

If you insert the CD after startup, does it work?

I'll give it a try a bit later, but I seem to recall I wasn't able to for some reason. Usually when it gives me that error about the RAM drive, like the Windows 98 disc, it appears to create a temporary boot disk on drive A...? I couldn't seem to get anything working with that either.

Anyway, I've ordered myself one of those IDE to USB adapters. It's supposedly arriving today (the same day) at around 10pm, so I'll be able to test and see if it complains about needing to reformat.