On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually have a copy of Norton Commander which has the DD in it, I think. > It requires a supported OS to run though and Windows 8 and 7 don't hack it.
Yah, you really want DOS, running on the bare metal, for a recovery effort like this. Fortunately, DOS can boot from floppy, so you don't need to do anything special. Just put the disk in and reboot. I can send you a disk image if you need one. It even sets up a RAM disk so you can put utilities there. It's high tech stuff from 1995... ;-) > Have you ever worked with the IBM PS2 3.5"drives? Those beasts would > format any 3.5" disk to 1.44 if you told it too. Then they could only > be read on the IBM drive. Yikes. No, I never had that pleasure. Until circa 2005, we did have a piece of test equipment that only worked with 720 KB DD floppies. A HD disk formatted at 720 KB wouldn't work. I had to hunt down old stock on eBay. -- Ben
