[pchelpers] Re: Retrieved the data!
- From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "G.R. Hanson" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 01:17:42 -0600
Hi Re-Na,
Friday, March 4, 2005, 11:51:17 PM, you wrote:
GRH> The 'trick' I got to work was to take out the floppy, yet right
GRH> click and get the 'diskcopy' to show up, so that immediately when
GRH> I inserted the disk again, I could click on it and it would
GRH> start. It gave me errors the first time, and I would just click
GRH> retry. Well, I went thru the steps a second time doing the
GRH> 'trick' again, and this time it asked me to insert disk #2 in to
GRH> copy to it, and that time it worked.
GRH> Before doing that 'trick' the corrupted floppy would grind, give
GRH> the hourglass, and you could not pull up the menu to TELL IT to
GRH> do a diskcopy at all.
GRH> :) I thought you might want to know those little details in case
GRH> it would work for you sometime.
Hmm, I didn't even realize that Windows had a "Copy disk" option. :)
I thought afterwards that I'd forgotten to explain how to run
DISKCOPY. :)
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Scott.
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