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║ Welcome to QUESTION.TXT! Hopefully you'll find the answer to your question ║
║ in this collection. ║
║ ║
║ o If you have a general question about data integrity, security, viruses, ║
║ system sectors or similar things, the help index in Integrity Master may ║
║ provide the answer (Hit F1 and then "I"). If that fails, read the manual ║
║ (file I-M.DOC), especially part two on "Data Integrity and Viruses". ║
║ ║
║ o If you're having trouble using the menus in Integrity Master try the ║
║ tutorial offered in SetupIM. ║
║ ║
║ o If all else fails, please contact us or the Advanced Support Group for ║
║ assistance. See details in file SUPPORT.DOC (IMVIEW SUPPORT.DOC ║
║ to read this file). ║
║ ║
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Q: I start SetupIM and suddenly nothing happens or I see the display
scroll and then get disorganized. The program seems to be stuck.
A: Insert formatted media (e.g., diskettes) in all removable drives, run
SetupIM, and try waiting about 10 seconds and hitting the ENTER key
several times. You may be using a program which is trying to write a
message to the screen while SetupIM is checking out your disk drives.
You can safely ignore any garbage which appears on your screen. SetupIM
will write a full report to file IMPROC.TXT. Be sure to check this
file. The most common cause for this type of problem is using
DRIVER.SYS to assign a duplicate drive letter to a floppy drive:
You may have a statement like this in the \CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:0
The numbers could be 0 as above or have some other value. DRIVER.SYS
may try to write a message to the screen to ask you to insert a new
disk and hit a key when SetupIM checks this drive. Deleting this line
should solve the problem. Once you finish running SetupIM you may
restore the line. IM will have know enough not to access the
duplicate logical drive.
Q: How do I scan multiple disks for viruses?
A: Please hit F1 in IM and select "Scanning for viruses" from the help
index or read the section on scanning in the user guide (I-M.DOC
file). From the command line you can use the /VM parameter to
quickly scan multiple disks. Use /Dx to tell IM which drive to
scan. IM will return a DOS error level of 64 or greater if it
encounters a virus.
Q: I want to do nothing other than scan a disk for known viruses how do
I use Integrity Master to accomplish that?
A: If this is a disk that you've already "INITIALIZED" with Integrity Master
then just use the CHECK menu to check that disk. If this a new disk to
Integrity Master then use the INITIALIZE menu, to do an initialize of
all the files. You can save time in both cases by using the option
menu to limit initializing or checking to executable programs. You can
also use the "V" option on the check menu to ONLY check for known viruses,
but if you do this you lose all the additional benefits of integrity
checking.
Q: I'd like to setup a batch file that sometimes does a quick check and
sometimes does normal, full integrity checking. Since there's no command
line option to change the type of checking, how do I do this?
A: Set your options for quick checking by using the OPTIONS menu. Then
select the first option on that menu to save (Write) the parameter file.
This saves your options in file IM.PRM. You can now copy that file to a
different file let's say QC.PRM ("COPY IM.PRM QC.PRM"). Now execute IM
and set your options back for full checking. Save (Write) those
options. You now have two files: QC.PRM (for quick checking) and IM.PRM
(for normal checking). IM with no change will use the options in IM.PRM.
Anytime, you want to do a quick check just invoke IM with: "IM QC.PRM" and
you'll be using the quick check options. If QC.PRM is not in the current
directory, be sure to code the complete path on the control card
(e.g., "IM D:\utils\QC.PRM").
Q: Sometimes IM comes up with different colors on the screen than before.
What's going on?
A: IM checks the DOS video mode indictor on your PC to see if you are
in color or monochrome mode, as well as directly checking your video
adapter. This allows you to use the DOS "MODE BW80" to indicate
that a two-color display is present on a color adapter card. Some
programs change this value to an incorrect value. If this happens
to you, use the DOS mode command to set the video mode back to the
correct state. For example, enter "MODE CO80" to restore normal
color mode. You can also use the command line override (or SetupIM)
so IM comes up using whatever colors you prefer. "IM /C" would
force IM to use color mode.
Q: I just tried to do a check or initialize on my hard disk. Integrity Master
replied that this disk was not working. It IS working! What's wrong?
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A: File "DISKhelp.TXT" describes how to correct this problem. Read file
DISKhelp.TXT using your favorite program, copy it to your printer ("COPY
DISKHELP.TXT PRN") or enter the command:
IMVIEW DISKHELP.TXT
to display this file.
Q: I just entered the command IMVIEW (or IMPRINT) and nothing happened. My
PC just said "Bad command or file name".
A: IMVIEW.COM and IMPRINT.BAT must be either in the current directory or
in one of the directories in your DOS path. To put these in the path,
enter the command PATH at the DOS prompt and you'll see a list of
directories on your disk. You can copy IMVIEW.COM or IMPRINT.BAT into any
of these directories.
Q: I don't have my original DOS install diskettes to do a clean boot from. How
do I install Integrity Master?
A: It's only important to have a certified clean copy if a virus may already
in control of your PC. In most cases you can safely install using your
DOS files in place on your hard disk. On some PCs such as the T1000
laptop and some Radio Shack models DOS is stored in ROM (Read Only Memory).
This copy of DOS is always a clean copy! If there IS a chance that you
may have virus active please take the time to borrow DOS diskettes from
a friend or a computer store. If you explain why you need this most people
will be more than glad to help you.
Q: I use DOS 4.0. I get a message saying that SHARE needs to be loaded for
large media, when I boot from diskette. Do I need to copy SHARE.EXE to
my Integrity Master boot floppy?
A: Integrity Master does not need SHARE. You may wish to copy it so other
programs can use it. If so, just copy it to your diskette. DOS will
automatically load it when you boot.
Q: I just checked several disks but I can't find the report file. What
happened?
A: If you have the report file option turned on in automatic mode (check the
OPTION menu), then the report file is written to the first disk that you
check. If you later switch to check another disk, without turning off the
report file, the reports will still go to the same file on the same disk.
You can choose to have this file always written to the same disk by
selecting this on the OPTION menu.
If you specified a report file name "of your choice", and did not
include a