In article <u%WDj.4325$qS5.4033@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Todd Vargo" <tlvargo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
The ME CD has XCOPY.EXE, XCOPY32.EXE and XCOPY32.MOD. I copied all three
to the floppy. After booting, I did
xcopy c:\dir1 d:\dir2 /e
This worked without having to rename XCOPY32.MOD.
Thanks
> > 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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