21 Apr
2000
21 Apr
'00
3:29 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
It gives you a big fat error message. His report of the "NO FILES" response
I stuck the disks I'm trying to recover data
from in the B: drive and did a
DIR but they all come back with "NO FILE". Now of course this means
that the disks contain no files but I'm thinking there has to be something
wrong here.
The system disk is CP/M-86. I still don't know what format the disks in
question are but I assumed they were also CP/M-86.
Why?
What could be
amiss here, aside from the possibility that the disks ARE empty? What
utilities are available to me on the system disk to view a raw dump of the
target disks?
The APC cupported both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS. Later today I'll look up some
specs to try to predict what the CP/M-86 would see on the MS-DOS format. from DIR would indicate that the disk(s) are CP/M-86
format, and would be
consistant with either no files at all and also no files in
the user area -
normally 0. There is, regrettably, no program like SHOW on the CP/M-86
system disk. You just have to step through each user area and issue the
DIR command.
- don
I can't
believe after all this effort that these damn disks contain nothing.
Happens all the time. People often send the wrong diskettes.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com