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Originally Posted by HardDrive View Post
I think its the floppy disk. If its complaining about virtual memory, that indicates that its trying to create a swap file on the floppy disk, and it doesn't have space. Often this was done to decompress drivers need to access the hardware. If only a few sectors of the floppy are bad, it may be unable to create the swap file.
The floppy disk is a MacGuffin. He's booting from the c: drive, which in DOS is the fixed disk (hard drive).
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