I downloaded DR-DOS 7 from Caldera.com last year, and am very happy with it. The most crashproof dos ever. it has a task switch option, which I tried, but find that mark.com & release.com work better for me when I need to work with graphic apps. IIRC, Caldera's taskswitcher will handle 8 virtual systems. DR-DOS 7 also has a better version of mscdex. DR-DOS 7 also has a config sys option; put a ? device=c:/dos/mscdex.exe and the config will stop until you tell it to either install, or skip the cd driver. or any other config sys option. As to the drive problems, I wonder if Norton and PC tools have kept up with all the variations and the mult-gig sizes. DR-DOS 7 has a better fdisk. I recently got GDISK from simtel, but have not had cause to use it yet. I have several drives on hand, and switch them out as need be. I dont use a computer case, but a plastic 4 gallon milk box. All the holes let the cables in, and the motherbd slides out easily. In any case, were I to do windoz, I would at least use fdisk/gdisk to give it a partition to work with so it would leave everything else alone. Then when it screws up, as it always does, you can reformat that partition without messing up the rest of your drive. til then, I'd live with it until I hear of a drive diagnostic/sector editor that will work. gphoto.org has software for running digital cameras on Linux. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
