Re: copy files in dos possible
From: DrB (drburdiX_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 11/13/04
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 06:30:55 -0800
I already have a bootable disk (when booting it shows WinMe) from your
referenced site some time back. It did not put xcopy on the floppy so I
copied it from my computer which uses WinXp-Pro and does not work in a DOS
environment. I probably need xcopy from WinMe, right? Do I need to go to the
old WinMe CD to copy?
Will it work when I have NTFS on the secondary drive?
The primary drive uses FAT32 and the bad secondary from my son's computer
where it failed has NTFS so I need the NTFSDOS driver, right? How do I get
it to load?
"Vanguard" <no_email> wrote in message
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> "DrB" <drburdiX@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>> Have a second hard drive that is no longer visible and failed according
>> to Maxtor. Would like to copy some of the file to primary drive so I got
>> a WinXp boot disk made and restated in dos. Tried to xcopy.exe files but
>> get error message the it will not run in dos environment. Use to be able
>> to do this with WinMe, but not able after loading WinXp on computer.
>> Anyone know what to run and be able to copy in dos since the hard drive
>> is only visible/readable in that environment?
>>
>
>
> The bootable floppy created within Windows XP does not include xcopy.exe.
> In fact, few files are put onto that floppy. So just where did you REALLY
> get a copy of xcopy.exe to run? xcopy.exe must match the version of the
> OS put onto the bootable floppy. I think the bootable floppy created
> within Windows XP uses an image file that puts Windows ME onto the floppy.
> If you need a complete bootable floppy, go to http://www.bootdisk.com/ to
> get the images for whatever OS version you want, use it to create a
> bootable floppy, and use that floppy. If you used NTFS on the second
> drive or you only have NTFS partitions on your first drive then you won't
> be able to access those partitions when booting to DOS (unless you put the
> NTFSDOS driver on the bootable floppy and load it).
>
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