Re: copy files in dos possible
From: Vanguard (no_email)
Date: 11/13/04
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:38:26 -0600
"DrB" <drburdiX@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>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?
Correct. You need a copy of xcopy.exe for Windows ME if the bootable
floppy is loading the Windows ME (MS-DOS 7) kernel. I haven't used
Windows ME in probably 4 years so I don't know if xcopy.exe exists on
the install CD for Windows ME or if you will have to extract it from a
.cab file. I suspect none of the bootdisk.com images contain NTFSDOS.
You can get that separately (the read-only mode is free so you will be
able to read from NTFS partitions but you won't be able to write to
them). Do a Google search to find where to download NTFSDOS.
I have a bootable CD so I don't have nor have never made the bootable
Windows XP setup floppies. You might download the file(s) from
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994 to see what files it puts onto
the bootable floppy set. There is also the UltimateBootCD
(http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) which lets you load an instance of
Windows using a bootable CD, but your computer must be able to boot
using the DVD/CD drive. You will some CD burning software that will lay
an .iso image file onto a CD-R[W] disc, like Nero, Easy CD Creator, or
WinOnCD. I believe it loads NTFSDOS (read-only) when it boots but
you'll have to read the information at their web page which has links to
every product they include. Products like Partition Magic will let you
convert an NTFS partition to a FAT partition (Windows won't do this; it
will only convert from FAT to NTFS). The Ranish Partition Manager is
included on the UltimateBootCD but I've not used it so I don't know if
it can convert from NTFS to FAT[32]. I suspect not but I could be
wrong.
> 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?
Yep.
Probably by adding a line to load it in config.sys (if booting under
DOS). I'm sure the download for it includes instructions on how to use
it.
I'm not sure you are bothering to set all this up if the Maxtor
diagnostics say the drive is bad. Of course, you never elucidated on
what "bad" was as reported by "Maxtor" (I doubt the company diagnosed
your drive so you also omitted what Maxtor *software* you used). Does
the Maxtor drive, now the second drive, actually show up in the BIOS
status screen (so you know that, at least, the BIOS can see it)?
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