Re: covertring hardfiles

2002-05-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that VPC's hard drive expander will convert hardfiles from softwindows and dos-cards. We have alot of unnecessary drive space wasted with multiple hardfiles and I wondered if there was a hardfile converter to change images from VPC to

Re: covertring hardfiles

2002-05-04 Thread Darren
Gregg Eshelman wrote: Boot the DOS card with a floppy that has the same or newer system on it along with FDISK. (Try both the same and newer ones.) See what FDISK says about the VPC disk file and report back. Look only, do not try to change anything! :) Good place to start. All the hardfiles

Re: covertring hardfiles

2002-05-04 Thread Darren
Gregg Eshelman wrote: Hmmm, sounds like the DOS card does something different than VPC with the boot sector, master boot record (MBR) or both. If you select the VPC C: file as C: for the DOS card, can you boot with a floppy and see what's on the disk file? Yes. If you can, make a copy of

Re: covertring hardfiles

2002-05-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Beats the stuffing out of me. I'm stumped. I've had similar problems when moving a drive with Win95 to a new PC or when changing motherboards, but I've always just reinstalled Windows to fix it. ;) At any rate, you'll need different drive images for VPC and the DOS card because they have

covertring hardfiles

2002-05-03 Thread Darren
I noticed that VPC's hard drive expander will convert hardfiles from softwindows and dos-cards. We have alot of unnecessary drive space wasted with multiple hardfiles and I wondered if there was a hardfile converter to change images from VPC to dos-card? At present I can use VPC's D-drive as