01 April 1997

I recently upgraded by Gateway 486/DX2 66 EISA from 32MB RAM to 64MB.
This caused quite a lot of pain.  I have been running WinNT 4 for
quite awhile with success.  But the pressure was on to get things
back together between business trips and USA income tax deadline!

The system wiped out the Drive C: which was my boot drive.
This is a standard FAT drive.  Luckily, I keep my own files on D.

But in the EISA machine, I'd recommend you use the ECU/CF utility
to adjust the RAM *before* you install the RAM itself.  I believe
this would have saved me quite a lot of pain and suffering.

As it was, I finally had to run FDISK and delete and recreate my
primary active partition on the Drive C.  Then a reFORMAT and
reINSTALL of Windows NT.  (This isn't easy since most of my
Microsoft-ware is "upgrade", so it looks for previous versions.)

Anyway, I'm back up and running.  Limping along on an old 486/EISA.

Cheers!

Byron
byron@bellatlantic.net