23 Oct
1999
23 Oct
'99
8:15 a.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
<Has anyone else run into trouble reading 8 sector disks under Win95? I trie
<to read the IBM DOS 1.10 disk and just ran into the Abort, Retry, Ignore
<error message. When I booted it up and copied it to another disk on the
<Compaq luggable, everything worked out just fine.
W9x driver assumes default formats. use a dos box to copy the contents of
the disk to a format the winbox knows. FYI: Don't bother win9x in dos mode
as it's still the same drivers.
I was running in a DOS box when doing the above. Since then, I made a
diskcopy on the Compaq and went back to try reading it under win95 with the
same results. My guess is that win9x no longer supports the 8 sector format,
but I don't for sure. I might add that I was doing this with a HD floppy
drive, but I wouldn't think that would affect the reading of the disk.