Note that mounting a CD-RW with MSCDEX only gives you READ capability.
An external Zip might be a better answer -- especially if the new 750s
have DOS drivers.

--benD

Matthew Small wrote:

> 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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