I have my external USB drive with me. It is normally what I use for
backup.
Will spend some time locating fresh editions of the Panasonic USB
drivers I use, in case those are problematical on the c drive just now.
i could not possibly find enough zip drives to do the job, my drives are
quite large.
Sort of funny, my c and e are the same drive, my d and f are the same.
Cannot recall how they got crossed like that, but they are.
thanks,
Kare
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, John R. Sowden wrote:
Based on your error messages, it sounds like there is a problem with the hard
drive. If you have more than 1 physical hard drive, your best bet is to
copy your data from the c: drive to the e: drive ASAP. If the "drives" are
actually partitions of the same physical drive, I would copy the data off of
the computer ASAP. An option to write to is a zip drive (100 MB each). It
connects to the parallel (printer) port.
4dos is much more feature packed. command.com is a program that executes
the commands you enter at the c:>. It also includes some internal
commands. If DOS is your main OS, I would find 4DOS invaluable. As far as
the OS (IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS) is concerned, command.com is just another
program. Gates did not get into making the use of our computer and the OS
that we licensed difficult until about Windows95. Luckily, Linux was
lurking in the background ready to pounce.
Again, this sounds like a hardware issue, specifically a hard drive getting
ready to die. I would get my data off it fast.
John
On 12/02/2017 12:55 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Thanks to you Dennis, and john for this suggestion.
The thing is that the file is command.com
I noticed at the computer help source indicates that there is a system
atrib option as well. granted I will check the options with my edition
of atrib, still it might work I have more than one hard drive, with
more than one copy of command.com for the same Dos edition.
As I write I have no idea how my machine is running, it rebooted by
accident and I barely got in again.
Staying with amazing friends, but I have no access to a monitor.
I have norton utilities 8.0, last edition for dos on a drive that seems
undamaged. so I hope I can make a rescue disc of some kind before too
much mayhem happens.
Thanks again,
Kare
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skin or his background or his religion ... People must learn to
hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to
love... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its
opposite." Nelson Mandela.
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, John R. Sowden wrote:
> use attrib to unhide it? then copy?
> John
>
>
> On 12/02/2017 10:38 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > its complicated. However, is there a way to copy over a file that
> > is
> > technically hidden?
> > having
> > a bit of a computer crisis.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Kare
> >
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