foxidrive wrote:
> Reds 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.
In Windows 98, XCOPY.EXE is a stub loader that p***** it's parameters off
to
XCOPY32.MOD which does the actual work. I don't recall if Windows ME had
the
same scheme, but all you would need to do is copy XCOPY32.MOD to the
floppy
and rename it to XCOPY.EXE and then you are in business.
> 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.
Since the drive is readable from a Windows 98 boot disk, ISTM, "when I now
boot to Windows it is not reading the drive", refers to Windows 3.xx. Just
a
hunch.
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