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Re: TS installation woes



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At 04:45 PM 9/29/98 -0700, James A Roush wrote:
>A friend of mine who went bust trading, gave me his copy of tradestation.
>I'm having trouble getting it to finish the installation process.
>
>It gets up to the point where it says:
>
>    Updating registry...
>    Verifying all...
>    Program group and icons appear on my desktop
>
>At this point I get an error message telling me there is insufficient space
>to backup my win.ini file.  This is ridiculous, I have 400+ megabytes free
>space on my C drive.
>
>I'm installing this beast on my second (D:) hard drive is that possibly the
>problem?  Before somebody tells me to read the manual, I'm trying to piece
>it back together -- it was the unfortunate victim of a world class tantrum.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>

Is your C drive very big? Some old programs misinterpret the free space as
a negative number on large drives.

Allan

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