Emax

Oh yeah, I forgot about that problem, it's been so long. I do believe that newer 3.5 drives 
are only compatible with HD disks. I believe the one in my computer doesn't even read 
my old 720 k disks it says they aren't formatted. Sorry about that!

On 21 Oct 2004 at 14:02, bass_krazy spoke unto me:

> 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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