Re: Copying from PC and back to Acorn

On 11 Jan 2006 "neil f" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'Standard' DOS Zip discs are read/writeable on the A5000, I used to transfer
> stuff that way back in W98 days. However, the disc does need to be in the
> original DOS format, as supplied when new. A lot of Zip discs get
> reformatted along the way and then RISC OS won't read them anymore for some
> reason. The answer is to use the utility on the disc that came with the
> drive originally to reformat your Zip back to 'standard'.

May well be the problem I describe here:-

Message-ID: <3f1b4fca4d.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> But of course, most users thought they'd never need the utilities disc -
> they viewed it as a free zip disc and promptly reformatted it with windows
> - at which point it couldn't be read by RISC OS anymore. ISTR if you DOS
> format it under ADFS the PC can't read it - but it might be worth a try.
> OTOH you may be able to download the Zip format utility from somewhere or
> else persuade Windows to do some kind of legacy format that can be read by
> ADFS. Of course, you'll have to archive everything to transfer via a DOS
> format or every filename will get screwed.

I can extract a copy of the contents if anyone needs one, assuming the old
Zip drive still works.

---druck

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