Okay, my suspicions were confirmed correct. Because HDD D and E were messed up, particularly D as it was showing up twice in Windows, that's why the SeaGate Tools disc wasn't loading properly. However, I've since rescued the contents of the drives, reformatted them, put the files back, and everything is recognised correctly. The SeaGate Tools disc now loads up properly. 😁

That's good! 😁 How's your memory config?

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-26, 14:06:

That's good! 😁 How's your memory config?

Thanks for the help, by the way. 😀

This is how it's looking. Still not much added yet, but hopefully I can put a bit more focus on configuring things and installing some games. 😀

I ask you to try EMM386 and the tweaks I think I gave you. 😀

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-26, 14:50:

I ask you to try EMM386 and the tweaks I think I gave you. 😀

Is EMM386 not enabled...? I was under the impression it was. I have C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EMM386.EXE ON and DEVICE=C:\WINDOW\HIMEM.SYS in my config.sys file. I still need to investigate why CuteMouse isn't working, too.

I think you need to specify "RAM" on EMM386's command line. 😀

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-26, 15:02:

I think you need to specify "RAM" on EMM386's command line. 😀

I've never been quite sure what switch to add there. I've had it set to 4096 before.

If that doesn't work, try adding "DOS=HIGH,UMB" to your config.sys.

Yeah, that's there, too. 😀

When you type "MEM," does it show anything under Upper memory?

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-26, 23:41:

When you type "MEM," does it show anything under Upper memory?

For some weird it's 0. I have DOS=High, UMB first, then HIMEM followed by EMM386.

Try typing MSD at the DOS prompt: it should show you the layout of your system's memory. To make sure it's not your or EMM386's error, try "I=B000-B7FF" on EMM386's command line. Also, I had a similar problem among others on a Win98SE tower before. I used QEMM's MANIFEST utility to help see why I wasn't getting any UMB memory and found 64k that was supposed to be free, and adding an include of the lower 32k into EMM386's command line got it to work. Using UMBPCI instead of EMM386 helped a lot more. It is a memory manager that uses the hardware to gain UMBs. You can find a link to it at https://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm. Try it out, and see if it works on your system.

Harry Potter wrote on 2025-10-27, 23:27:

Try typing MSD at the DOS prompt: it should show you the layout of your system's memory. To make sure it's not your or EMM386's error, try "I=B000-B7FF" on EMM386's command line. Also, I had a similar problem among others on a Win98SE tower before. I used QEMM's MANIFEST utility to help see why I wasn't getting any UMB memory and found 64k that was supposed to be free, and adding an include of the lower 32k into EMM386's command line got it to work. Using UMBPCI instead of EMM386 helped a lot more. It is a memory manager that uses the hardware to gain UMBs. You can find a link to it at https://dosprograms.info.tt/indexall.htm. Try it out, and see if it works on your system.

Unfortunately ‘MSD’ doesn’t appear to be recognised in the command prompt. I tried adding I=B000-B7FF at the end, but it doesn’t appear to have done much. It’s still saying Upper is 0.

I’ll have to check out that memory manager