![]() ![]() I mean, deleted files aren't usually a reliable way to store things. > note-taking, so troubleshooting this discrepancy is going to present quite > I'm more than a little rusty at just running MS-DOS for my day-to-day ![]() > check for remnants of deleted files on the hard drive, but got this > Yesterday I tried to use the Unerase utility in Norton Utilities 5.01 to > Satellite 2545XCDT which I now use every day as my notepad. > my old system more or less up and running on a hand-me-down Toshiba > I've made considerable progress since my last post over there, and now have > Hi! I'm trying to resurrect an old MS-DOS 6.21 system I used to run years but those were the classic days of DOS and diskette distribution. Then the install/setup program on diskette must be run to properly decomprerss/install from diskette(s) to the hard drive. Often, you need to re-create the original diskette(s) from the downloaded archive, because the diskette files may themselves be archived/compressed (hence, the 'weird' filename extensions). What Ron said about 'weird extensions' is often the case, but sometimes when you get stuff from 'abandonware' sites, the downloaded files contain archived versions of the actual installation diskettes. (They are backwards compatible with FAT16 and FAT12 as well.) For example, the NU 2003 that i have contains FAT32-capable versions of Disk Doctor, Disk Editor, UnErase, UnFormat, and Rescue which run fine under real DOS. DOS 6.x support began with NU 7, so that would be the *minimum* version i'd suggest.Īs NU progressed to Win9x support, they still included a few pure-DOS utilities (needed for the 'rescue' diskette facility, which of necessity, booted up in DOS). ![]() NU 8.0 was, indeed, the final version for FAT16 DOS/Win3. I'd be grateful for some help determining what first steps I can take to try to isolate the source of this problem. I'm more than a little rusty at just running MS-DOS for my day-to-day note-taking, so troubleshooting this discrepancy is going to present quite a challenge to me. The help file suggested I "calibrate" the HD, but when I tried to run the Norton Calibrate utility it returned the message: "There are no hard disks available to test."īut the Norton System Summary shows "Hard disks: 23M" Yesterday I tried to use the Unerase utility in Norton Utilities 5.01 to check for remnants of deleted files on the hard drive, but got this message: "Error reading directory." I've made considerable progress since my last post over there, and now have my old system more or less up and running on a hand-me-down Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT which I now use every day as my notepad. I joined DOS ain't dead about a month ago and posted an introduction in the Miscellaneous forum: Old DOS Newbie Seeks Advice Hi! I'm trying to resurrect an old MS-DOS 6.21 system I used to run years ago on a Toshiba 1910 CS laptop. ![]()
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