At 02:48 PM 3/17/99 , David Gillett wrote:
>On 15 Mar 99, at 23:20, Harvey Rose wrote:
>
>> Also when I do a SYS C:  I get a message: "No room for systenm on
>> destination disk. Yet there is 9.8M left on C drive. Could it be
>> Stacker?
>
>  Older versions of DOS were very picky about where the MSDOS.SYS and
>IO.SYS files were physically placed on the drive, and where their
>directory entries were stored.  If this drive was originally a
>second/slave drive in a two-HD system, there may be other files
>occupying these spaces.  SYS.COM isn't "smart enough" to move those
>files to make room.

I may getting in late on this problem, but there is also the limitation of
64 files in the root directory.  If this is exceeded, then you will not be
able to sys c:.
Doug Simmons

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