On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> 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.
> I can't believe after all this effort that these damn disks contain nothing.
Happens all the time. People often send the wrong diskettes.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 11:39:52 BST