Q96627: No Warning If Setup Fails to Modify Your SYSTEM.INI File

Article: Q96627
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.0
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Last Modified: 23-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system version 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you run Setup with the /E parameter, if Setup cannot modify your SYSTEM.INI
file because it cannot find the [386Enh] section header, it does not display any
warning or error message.

If the SYSTEM.INI file is not updated with the line DEVICE=C:\DOS\VFINTD.386, you
receive the following error message when you start Microsoft Backup for
Windows:

  Microsoft Backup is not properly installed on this system.

WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, open your SYSTEM.INI file and add the following
line to the [386Enh] section:

  " DEVICE=C:\DOS\VFINTD.386 " (without the quotation marks)

Microsoft Backup for Windows should function correctly after you restart Windows.

Additional query words: 6.00 back up mwbackup

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS600
Version           : MS-DOS:6.0

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