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25-07-2011, 12:55 AM
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Urgent help needed (DOS)
I copied some file from a Win Xp system having FAT32 file system to a hard disk connected as slave.
The hard disk has DOS installed as OS and have FAT as file system.
The content of folder I copied on to the hard disk is visible in windows system. But when I boot the hard disk in DOS only the folder is being made and the contents inside is not shown.
Please Help.
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25-07-2011, 07:08 AM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
Use Ubuntu Live CD and copy your data where you want. In Ubuntu if its there most probably it will show.
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25-07-2011, 09:18 AM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
Try using the Dir/a command & see
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25-07-2011, 03:04 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
yes, the dir /a command really works very well. you can view all files in the directory with this command. you can also provide attributes like dir /ah for looking hidden files or dir /as for looking system files.
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25-07-2011, 04:34 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
None of my files are hidden or have any other attributes, so above solutions are of no use.
I will explain again, the contents of the folder are visible in windows Xp when the HDD is connected as slave, but when I boot the HDD, it shows that only the folder is made and inside it no files are there.
Any more intelligent solutions ppl.
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25-07-2011, 04:45 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
^^ what is the type & size of the files ur coping on ur DOS HDD
also the root folder in Fat16 can manage a maximum of 512 entries. The use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of available entries.
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25-07-2011, 04:46 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
Actually its an old DOS based software, contains some *.dat* , *.h* and one *.exe* file.
And the size of the entire folder is about 2mb and the size of the HDD is 128MB 
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25-07-2011, 04:54 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
I think u should use DOSBOX to run that on ur new PC rather then wasting time on the old 128MB HDD
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25-07-2011, 05:00 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
+1 to DOSBOX
I also wanted to suggest the same! Using the Dosbox on Windows XP will be useful.
@OP reply back after using DOSBox to let us know it the problem still persists.
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25-07-2011, 05:00 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
Quote:
Originally Posted by mithun_mrg
I think u should use DOSBOX to run that on ur new PC rather then wasting time on the old 128MB HDD
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yes 
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25-07-2011, 06:54 PM
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Re: Urgent help needed (DOS)
Yeah +1 for Dosbox.
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