On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:56:21 GMT, Reds <redex1398@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > But it doesn't work when I boot with the floppy.
>>
>> If your drive is formatted for NTFS, then a standard boot floppy can
not
>> read the HD. Rather than have us guess, why not tell us why you are
booting
>> from floppy just to copy some files on an XP system.
>
>I was using this as a slave drive, but when I now boot to Windows, it is
>not reading the drive, but saying that it needs formatting instead.
>But when I boot with the floppy, I can see the files and directories, so
>I'm trying to copy them to another drive while in DOS.
>
>I'm using a DOS startup disk made from Windows ME.
>
>I tried xcopy "c:\dir1\" "d:\dir2\" /e ,
> xcopy c:\dir1\ d:\dir2\ /e
>and xcopy c:\dir1\ d:\dir2\ /s /e
>
>but I keep getting "Bad command or file name."
xcopy.exe or xcopy.com is an external command and must be included on the
floppy disk, either on the path or in the current folder or have the full
path specified.
If your Hard drive is in NTFS format and all you want to do is copy the
data to your ME hard drive then it would be 'better' to download a live
Linux cdrom, burn the cdrom and then boot off the cdrom. You can then use
Linux to copy your files, which will copy faster than in MSDOS using PIO
disk transfers, and will also preserve long filenames. You could try a
Live Ubuntu linux distribution cdrom which has NTFS read sup****t I
believe.
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