F3 just gives you back what you last typed - not perfect but it saves a bit of typing. HJ
blakston well done keep it going; we'll investigate what's there later: when you've done with a shred of luck you should get back to A:\> if...
BB mainly 'coz a bit of untimely ren-ning followed by what came next blew out our chances of anything better; like I said you have to look at the...
you should leave the startup floppy in if in any doubt, just hit CtrlAltDel to restart and choose option 2 for "no CD support " then, look...
hi again blakston there have to be spaces between some of the items on these command lines it's not easy to see in this font. But one way...
hi sorry for the delay markp it's including path also not just filename it's well-formed-path limited also (contracted name versions as you say...
a couple of checks first. I would like to be more certain that the HDD itself is not faulty... also that we can use the top two partitions...
yo blakston you hit gold! I am now almost sure we can do this but care is needed from the date of the earlier August2002 files they can be...
is 46GB split into three blakston just said so; and it is FAT32. == I'm not sure the invalid long file names matter that much. in general...
Kevin no worries and thanks for looking in just a bit worried that we'll "too many cooks "; like last time lost the CONFIG.SYS which has...
Hi Kevin - why on earth did you change the instructions? OK you will get the file across but the midflight rename was not unintentional......
Hi blakston, BB and all blakston: thanks for the history this sheds quite a bit of light! - only popping in, work going OTT, back later.....
BB and all from my summary above it was there until 00:45 last night... and then... the first ren attempt does seem to have targetted...
Hi BB and all having been with this one from the start(!) I'd like to summarise a couple of points out of a long thread, to try to help poor...
sorry blakston, this is indeed probably too much of a mess to pick up the pieces. I would like to think about it a bit further - several things...
strewth! :eek: Oh dear... a lot of excreta I fear, we may well need the bright guys on this soon. But they will need the information from your...
is Start>Programs>Windows Explorer usually GL,HJ
No worries friend we can still crack this you had the files up until your post at 00:45H unfortunately the last rename you tried at mark's...
Hi regarding the appearance of the filenames when you type them in upper and lower case don't matter, and you always put the dot the...
I think I see what's a-caring: look and type very carefully: A:\> dir c: /p is what you should be using... if you just do A:\>...
Separate names with a comma.
