Hi
does any one know how to format a flopy disk whith ms dos 622 or higher
so that drvspace.bin wont automatically be included in the system transfer?
As well as be loaded, wheather you use it or not.
"format a: /u /s"
Gives you a:\io.sys a:\drvspace.bin a:\msdos.sys a:\command.com
on the flopy in a:. I don't have any compressed drives, and if you del
a:\drvspace.bin, after formatting it, it won't boot.
I must be missing some thing or some thing.
Oh, yah, what about pressing control C when the press any key to run
scandisk comes up?
Thanks!
Pete
On 1999-03-14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>>OK... MS-DOS 6.0x had DoubleSpace (algorithms stolen from Stac,
>no decompress
>>>option, very unreliable).
>>Yes. However, I'll point out that the majority of the problems
>>reported with MS-DOS 6.0 (trashed disks) were not caused by
>>DoubleSpace, but by SmartDrive. The DOS 6 setup program installed
>>SmartDrive as a write-back cache by default. Folks who used
>>badly-written REBOOT.COM utilities instead of pressing
>>Control-Alt-Delete got nasty surprises. (Yes, me too.) Compressed
>drives tended to get trashed worse, that's all.
>The biggest problem with 6.0 (and all after) is that ScanDisk is
>included. this has trashed several good working floppys for me, and
>even taken a piece of my hardrive (w95 starts it every time that I
>have to close Win with Crtl-Alt-Del or the power button)
>Others might have diffrent things to complain about (or think that
>ScanDisk is great) but I certainly don't think so.
>Perhaps what you state about sartdrive is the reason I've never
>used it? I heard that it wasn't good and i had never heard of it,
>so I removed it from my autoexec.bat and it has never found it's
>way back unless I test it for some reason (namely Arachne speed
>comparsions)
>Best cure for my PC?
>Del scandisk.exe :)
>Deltree/y windows is also a good way to fix most of your PC
>troubles. //Bernie
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