I think that you should look into getting a ZIP drive.  Zip drives come with a boot utility to load drivers at the DOS prompt.  That said, you can definitely assign a drive letter to a CDRW using the driver and the MSCDEX command, but I'm not sure how it's done and I'm sure it's not fun.

- Matt Small
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: brobborb
  To: CF-Community
  Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:59 PM
  Subject: Re: Moving stuff around in DOS

  A PC, a USB drive, and a laptop, a screwdriver. :)

  But good news!  My ex has found the restore CDs for the laptop.  The question is, does the restore CD allow you to backup certain files before doing a restore?  HEHE
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Ben Doom
    To: CF-Community
    Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:54 PM
    Subject: Re: Moving stuff around in DOS

    What hardware resources are available to you?

    --benD

    brobborb wrote:

    > see here's the THING the OS wont start cos the hard drive is corropt or
    > OS is corrupt.  soemthing like that.  Maybe I am taking the wrong
    > approach.  How do you guys suppos I should go about backing up stuff
    > from the laptop, when I can't even boot it up correctly?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    >   ----- Original Message -----
    >   From: C. Hatton Humphrey
    >   To: CF-Community
    >   Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:38 PM
    >   Subject: RE: Moving stuff around in DOS
    >
    >   Are you booting to an OS that is going to load and mount that USB drive
    >   correctly?
    >
    >   Hatton
    >
    >   > -----Original Message-----
    >   > From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    >   > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:36 PM
    >   > To: CF-Community
    >   > Subject: Moving stuff around in DOS
    >   >
    >   > Hey guys, if i boot up a laptop with a floppy, and connect a
    >   > USB drive to the laptop, how do i move files from the laptop
    >   > to the USB drive?
    >   >
    >   > i know i will use the copy [filename] [destination]...
    >   > command, but how do i know what the letter of the USB drive
    >   > will be?  thankie
    >   >
    >
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