On 4/14/2021 9:30 AM, Thomas Desi wrote:
Eric, Tomas,
thanks for this helpful info!
If installing Linux helps to get my files out of FreeDos
(hm… „free my files!!“ - or is it a "Lockdown-Dos“?), I will do.
You do not have to "install" Linux. Just use a Live CD (my suggestion is
still Linux Mint 20.1 Mate) and use the file manager of that to drag and
drop stuff from your dead Windows onto your USB stick...
My „dream“ was it to „marry“ FreeDOS with a portable USB Stick (Backup and
Carrying), whilst booting from a Harddisk and working on C:.
But maybe this is n’t so important after all, how complicated it all seems to
me. Daunting.
The problem is that (Free)DOS can't properly access any Windows system
of the last 20 years. Even with basic NTFS reader support, on Windows
version Vista and newer, you will likely run into permission issues,
which are kind of resolved on Linux, but will never be working in any DOS...
NB: I wonder if there was a „USB 1.0“ Usb-Stick, if FreeDOS prefers USB 1.0?
Maybe Bret E. Johnson knows something? He was very helpful with his MOUSKEYS
application, and seems to kow about USB on Dos a lot.
(Free)DOS just does't care about USB in the first place. USB just became
a thing after DOS wasn't a thing anymore...
Ralf
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