MSDOS PROGRAM IN WINDOWS 10 32BIT WILL NOT WORK

[moveit]

Earlier this year I moved to Windows 10 32bit advised by yourselves. I am getting to know the OS but have come across something that does not make sense.

Since XP I have always had a seperate disk with my data on it. On this disk is a MSDOS program 16bit which is a small data base called CardboxPlus. It goes back to 1989. I always have a shortcut to start it and have not had any problems until Windows 10. I loaded 10 32bit on a SSD and it picked up the data hard drive okay. It even worked with the shortcut. As my data HD was getting old I transferred all the data onto a new SSD. For no reason I can find, Cardbox would not work. I even followed a website advice of the Legacy being un-ticked and reinstated via the Command Prompt. This did not work either.

From XP to 10 I have always used the 32bit OS so I can use the old software. Can you help?

 

[moveit]

Thought I would give you an update. I noticed that there was a file that did not copy over from the HDD to the SSD. It would not even let me open it. I have just got a cloning program and used that. It copied the file and all the others and now the Cardboxplus works from the D drive via a shortcut.

The file that would not copy is SandBlastBackup

Does anyone know what it is?

 

[Deniall]

On my computer (Windows 10, home edition, 64-bit) SandBlastBackup is produced by one of the facets of my anti-everything protection software, ZoneAlarm Extreme Security.[ ] It is very tightly secured, presumably for good reason.[ ] It seems to get bigger and bigger, but never smaller, and one one or two occasions it seems to have suddenly got VERY large.[ ] When this happens I delete it, and it then re-establishes itself, but smaller.[ ] However the only way I have found that allows me to delete it is to re-boot my computer in Safe Mode.

Toss the two words sandblastbackup and zonealarm at Google to get some theories about it.[ ] But nothing definitive that I could come across.