Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, > let me simplify this some. > I just did this about three hours ago. I have done nothing to the drive > where the file was, in an effort of being very very sure it can be > recovered. As mentioned, the 2002 version of FreeDOS undelete avoids to write the drive FROM which you extrac

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, given that I have very little information about your problem and situation, I just give you a very big pile of ideas - maybe there is something useful in it, or maybe something to ponder further. >> First of all, I did not make myslf clear. I was not running win98. >> I was only run

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
let me simplify this some. I just did this about three hours ago. I have done nothing to the drive where the file was, in an effort of being very very sure it can be recovered. granted dos 7.1 does not have undilute. dos 6.22 did, and I still have that on a different drive. I am not running f

Re: [Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Karen, > I xcopied the contents of my c drive to my e, which is a problem for > one major file. > if I want to recover this file as it was before the xcopy process, is > there anything I can do? Depends. If you deleted a file, you can try to undelete it. In MS DOS, undelete starts at a del

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:22:40 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > The two main files seem to be (as mentioned) fdos0138.exe (.ZIP sfx of > .IMA) and jis4pack.lzh (three .fnt files, the first of which is huge, > presumably only useful with something on the .IMA, perhaps FONTNX.EXE > ??). Yes, and they are b

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread John Sowden
On 11/09/2013 06:30 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi John, > >> to clarify, I ran sys c: from a freedos floppy to write over the win98 >> OS with freedos. that is how this all started. > Ah, so you do not need Win98-DOS any more? That is easy :-) > > Actually the question then becomes: Apart from the Free

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, > to clarify, I ran sys c: from a freedos floppy to write over the win98 > OS with freedos. that is how this all started. Ah, so you do not need Win98-DOS any more? That is easy :-) Actually the question then becomes: Apart from the FreeDOS warning about geometry, which is mostly cosm

[Freedos-user] recovering a file?

2013-11-09 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, Interesting problem with my run of xcopy. apparently when I put in this removable drive, the letters get goofy. previously when I checked for example, the removable drive became e shifting what is normally my e drive to f. this time though it became something else without my realizing.

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> > Wow! > As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions > are complex. Nothings easy! Welcome to computers, where "easy" means hours of work. > I also have a tendency to not explain > completely. Usually I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat >> wrote: >>> >>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >>> >>> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html >>>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat > wrote: >> >> ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ... >> >> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >> >> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html >> >> Is that

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread John R. Sowden
On 11/09/2013 10:35 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi John, > >> As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions >> are complex. Nothings easy! I also have a tendency to not explain >> completely. Usually I'm pretty precise. I am not running any MS >> Windows on this computer. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, > As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions > are complex. Nothings easy! I also have a tendency to not explain > completely. Usually I'm pretty precise. I am not running any MS > Windows on this computer. I am running the "DOS 7.10" from Win98 on >

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread John R. Sowden
On 11/09/2013 09:34 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated > values > 81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63 >> BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and >> your

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >> >> Win98 FAT32 typically does, but the message suggests that >> you installed DOS on the partition. You can of course use >> a Win98 DOS 7.x boot disk and just "SYS C:" again if the >> res

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Matej Horvat wrote: > On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat >> wrote: >>> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >>> >>> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html >>> >>> I

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values 81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63 > > BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and > your partition type 0b is FAT32 CHS. You could swit

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat > wrote: >> PS: I just wrote all that and found this: >> >> http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html >> >> Is that third party software for Japanese support or what? > > No, a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:02:58 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > If that just returns a charset-specific static table, maybe it > would be some sort of charset rendering and keyboard / input > method driver that actually implements this, not the kernel? Sure, it could also be a TSR. I forgot how flexible D

Re: [Freedos-user] Warningsafter installing FD on a partitioned Drive

2013-11-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, >>> - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated >>> values >>> 81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63 BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and your partition type 0b is FAT32 CHS. You could switch to FAT32 LBA where geometry is irrelevant. Note tha