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Don't laugh, but I am trying to load DOS Quicken ver #6 on my Win XP Professional PC. I am in the DOS environment. Everything goes well until the last disket has loaded. Then I get an error message saying that my disket is write-protected OR the drive door is not closed. My the last loaded disket is niether write-protected nor is the drive door open. Anybody seen this crazy error ?? I purchased the Quicken package 5 years ago for $25 at a garage sale. Quicken cannot or will not provide any support.

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williamwarning333
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XP does not really provide DOS but rather an emulation and it is probably missing some function(s) that that version of Quicken needs.

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ebloch

Can you copy all the diskettes to your harddrive first and then install from there?

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The Streets
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williamwarning333

You can try the DOS verify command to verify that no files are corrupted on the floppy disk. Then if that is ok, try making a copy of the floppy and loading from that. Use the DOS diskcopy command for this.

My XP machines all have an autoexec.bat file but it is empty. As I recall from my DOS days, the file installer would first rename autoexec.bat to autoexec.old and then make a new file that is updated with the program specific info. I would try renaming the file to .bat and installing again to see if the program did indeed rename file.

Good luck Marty

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