Emax

That may or may not be the problem.
I have had no luck with EMX or EMAXutil for writing disk.
I went as far as installing a HD and formating a partition with DOS 
6.22 (not download but actual disk).
There is nothing on the drive but the utilities and their image 
files and it still has the can't find sector problem.
Doesn't matter if I boot from that HD (other HD's disconnected)or 
the floppy.
It actually looks to be based on the 3.5" 720k drive vs 3.5" 1.44m 
drive more than anything else.
I have been trying to find one of the old 720k floppy drives to try.


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "John Silveria" <emaxjs@s...> wrote:
> There is your problem. DOS is the operating system which most home 
PC's ran on until 
> Windows 95. Even early versions of Windows were actually just 
shells running on top of 
> DOS. It is a command line interface not unlike UNIX. 
> 
> The problem you are facing (as I understand it) is that from 
Windows 95 forward 
> Microsoft's Operating Systems reserved certain sections of a 
disc's boot sector for it's 
> Operating Sytems to use. This means that EMX is not actually able 
to get access to 
> certain boot sectors to write data to them, which it must be able 
to do. Windows XP isn't 
> built upon a DOS platform at all.
> 
> In the files section there are a couple of alternative downloads 
you can try. There is a 
> file called CopyQm & ZD777 image Emax II 2.14 - CopyQM is a disk 
imager. Then there 
> are two different files that can create either a DOS 5 or DOS 6.22 
boot disk. I'd try the 
> Copy QM version first as the other two might not work on your XP 
machine.
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 Oct 2004 at 20:41, Brook Schafer spoke unto me:  
> 
> > Im running windows xp. Im not sure what dos is?
> 
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