Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:26:50 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Recover files with long file names in DOS
Hey Dick,
Thanks for your input on this.
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drivers on it and a portion of the manual reads as follows:...
Each motherboard has its own design of BIOS. "USB Flash Disk" can make your system boot up in the status set 1st boot up >condition with 'USB Zip' in the BIOS booting menu.
Unfortunately the Libretto BIOSs are too archaic to ever have supported USB.
The "making bootable disk" was the thing that caught my eye. It is only for WIN98SE, and it requires your BIOS to have a setting for using the USB device as bootable, but I have drivers for 5 different versions of this flash drive (I have no idea what version I have, I am using WIN2000 and it automatically detects it and loads a Microsoft driver for it; I did not have to use the disk at all).
But is there a W2K boot floppy that boots your system into DOS where the USB ports can then be accessed? A DOS window from a full boot to W2K isn't going to be 'pure' DOS, and the USB ports at that point are probably available. But is W2K like WXP where, if I remember correctly, XP really doesn't really have a pure DOS mode anymore. It has the Recovery Console which seems to be limited in what it's capable of.
The USB flash drive is a "no name" unit from China. It came with advertising on it from a company I work with. If these drivers are of interest to you, I could send them to on a CD (there is 19Meg of files on it). I don't know if they would work with any other flash drive or not.
That's nice of you to offer Dick. Let's see how a few more people weigh in on this one though. If you can 1st determine that W2K >does< in fact have a pure DOS mode you can boot into from a flpppy (the only thing the Librettos boot from), and if you can confirm the USB ports can be accessed at that point, I may indeed be inerested in a copy of your CD.
Thanks again,
Matt
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