Colorado backup for dos requirements, Colorado backup for windows requirements – HP 8GB User Manual

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Installation Guide

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Printing date: Saturday, April 04, 1998

Colorado Backup for DOS Requirements

Installing Colorado Backup for DOS requires:

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DOS 5.0 or higher. To identify your version, type

VER

at the DOS prompt and

press

ENTER

.

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A minimum of 512 KB of conventional memory. Performance is likely to
improve with more available memory. To check free memory, type

MEM

at the

DOS prompt and press

ENTER

. The value listed after “Largest executable

program size” should be at least 524,288.

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6 MB of available hard drive space (1 MB for the software and an additional 5
MB of space for operations overhead). To check available hard drive space, type

CHKDSK

at the DOS prompt and press

ENTER

. “Bytes available on hard drive”

should be at least 6 MB.

Colorado Backup for Windows Requirements

Installing Colorado Backup for Windows requires:

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Windows version 3.1 or 3.11 running in 386 Enhanced mode. To verify your
version and mode, from the Program Manager, open the Help menu, then select
About Program Manager. The software version is listed and “386 Enhanced
Mode” must appear in the box.

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4 MB of RAM in Windows 3.1

8 MB of RAM in Windows for Workgroups

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10 MB of available hard drive space (5 MB for the software and an additional 5
MB of space for operations overhead). To check available hard drive space,
double-click on the File Manager icon in the Main program group. Then click
on the icon for the hard drive where Colorado Backup is to be installed (C: is the
default). The amount of free hard drive space appears at the bottom of the
window. It must be at least 10,000 KB.

In addition, the following is recommended but not required:

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Your computer might be running either the SHARE.EXE or VSHARE.386 (but
not both). If either is running, you will find SHARE.EXE in either your
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and VSHARE.386 will be in your
SYSTEM.INI file.

See your Microsoft Windows User’s Guide for more information.

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