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rtfm 
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Posted on: Nov. 17 2004,17:41 |
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I've noticed with some programs if I create an IMG larger then 2.88 I get "sector not found reading drive a" when the program tries to load. Usually this is with a program that'd normally take 3+ diskettes that I've joined into one large IMG file.
Having this issue currently with the newest version of NTFSPRO for DOS. The program makes 3 diskettes that I joined into one IMG file. It boots fine to the dos prompt, then when I try to execute the NTFSPRO.EXE I get the sector not found error. Didn't have this issue with the older version of NTFSPRO which also took 3 disks.
Is this just a program error on their part? Or is there a way I can create the IMG to help prevent that error message?
Thanks for your help.
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xoben
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Posted on: Nov. 18 2004,03:06 |
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NTFSPRO.EXE may not support abnormal diskette emulation. You can try BCDW or CDSHELL to load it.
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rtfm
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Posted on: Nov. 20 2004,02:25 |
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When I tried booting that image with cdshell, I get a Disk I/O error.
Any other ideas?
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xoben
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Posted on: Nov. 20 2004,05:42 |
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Do you try a 5.76MB image? which may work.
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rtfm
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Posted on: Nov. 20 2004,17:32 |
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Tried your suggestion size, same error.
I don't get it however, it's not even attempting to load the boot files which are ME os files.
I'll try that same image size with just the boot files w/o the program files just to see if it boots that.
Meantime, any other ideas?
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xoben
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Posted on: Nov. 20 2004,19:41 |
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Another suggestion is switch to different DOS: DOS 6.22, DOS 98 and FreeDOS, as well as try WinImage 7.0 to create a large floppy image.
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rtfm
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Posted on: Nov. 20 2004,23:01 |
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I use WinImage 7 for all the images, that's what I used to do the custom size earlier.
I tried just the OS files with ME and kept the image at 5.76, still Disk I/O error. I'll try another OS, could this be a size limitation of memdisk?
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xoben
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Posted on: Nov. 21 2004,03:00 |
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| Quote | | could this be a size limitation of memdisk? |
No. memdisk can emulate up to 500MB image. It is NTFSPRO.EXE which does not work under emulating environment.
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rtfm
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Posted on: Nov. 22 2004,01:09 |
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So far I haven't been able to get any boot img file to work over 2.88 with memdisk. Does anyone have a sample boot img over 2.88, hopefully 5.76meg, that I could download to try?
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rtfm
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Posted on: Nov. 22 2004,01:38 |
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Got it to work.
In WinImage I told it to "Export to an image with a mbr". Used that image file on the cd and works great now.
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