I'm surprised because I thought you guys would have owned this forever. But knowing how programming intensive you guys are you may not need it. Go to Steve Gibson web site http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm he is a stomp down good programmer who still programs in assembly, so all of his programs are very small but and this is a big but they are very powerful. Spin Rite will recover a hard drive any hard drive unless you have physical damaged it dropped it off a 4 story building that is unusable won't work can't read or write to the hard drive, this program, that will boot your machine from a 3 1/2 inch floppy using FreeDos as the operating system of his choose I guess because it's free runs his program in FreeDos and fixes your problems. Version 5 would only work for FAT systems but version 6 his latest works in FAT "File Allocation Table" or NTFS "New technology File System" I had this program save my rear a lot of times. It has fixed drives I had folks tell me that were not fixable.
He also has a lot of Free programs and I have used a few of them a couple of the free programs are for the ZIP drives and several are to keep your computer safe from hacker closing or at least letting you know what and which ports are making you at risk. O well when you get there you will see. As you can tell I like his programs and he helps and for free and he is very knowledgeable. Ron Spruell Sr. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Auer Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] how to install in Freedos Hi Ron, nice to know that Spinrite for DOS now supports NTFS, but what does Spinrite do? Defragging, disk checking...? About the drive letters: You cannot boot a full DOS from raw cdrom, so we use a virtual A: drive. The contents of that drive are on a diskimage on the cdrom. The normal diskette drive is called B: while the virtual drive is used - only when you have booted from cdrom, in other words. There are cdrom drivers on the virtual A:, which allow DOS to use the "normal contents" of the cdrom after booting. I think DOS will call the normal cdrom drive X: then. About the whereabouts of shsurdrv and problems with the LiveCD caused by them, please ask Blair Campbell (email blairdude at gmail dot com) whether this is a known bug in FreeDOS 1.0 and if so, how you can fix it. Maybe he can just make a fixed ISO for you... Eric :-) PS: You talked about a 5 MB harddisk in the old days... Actually you can squeeze almost all of "FreeDOS base" on 3 diskettes today, including lots of documentation. I once booted Windows 3.1 from a tiny 256 MB USB stick, which felt weird as it originally lived on 40 MB HD and a few MB of RAM. Today you have gigs of USB and RAM... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
