- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Doom
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Moving stuff around in DOS
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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