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Drive Errors When Executing A DOS Command
DocumentID: 659225
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:48 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: A customer was running on an NEC Multispeed dual floppy (no hard disk) computer. Every time the user executed any command at the A:> prompt, DOS would look first to the A drive, then to the B drive and back to the A drive. If the customer didn't have a diskette in the B drive, DOS would tell him that the drive door was open or a similar type of error message and wouldn't go any further until he put a diskette in the B drive.

The A drive and the B drive were in the path command. By taking the B: drive out of the path, the problem no longer occurred.

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