Re: Off-topic: Backing up non-DOS files in Windows 98

[B.Gillessen@xxxxxxxx]

If your Zip drive is from Iomega you should check out
http://www.iomega.com/software/index_en.html

There are drivers available for Win 98. (Especially, there is a little
program called "Winguest" which is part of the IomegaWare package. I fits on one
disk and does not need any installation. Check your installation disks that
came (or should have come) along with your Zip drive - usually, they contain a
copy of Winguest.)

This seems to me to be much more simple than copying all your files under
DOS.



>    My computer has been diagnosed by the local computer repair
> professional -- hitherto reliable -- as having a corrupt file in its
> Windows 98
> operating system. It's acting in a highly irrational manner. He advises
> reinstalling
> the operating system from the original disks, obviously first copying
> everything I want to keep onto disks.
>    I have no problem backing up all my Xywrite files on Zip disks. But
>
> I'm having a problem with all my non-DOS files -- all those Word and PDF
> documents. I have a Zip drive (Drive E) , but Windows 98 only offers me
> the option of
> copying to a disk in Drive A -- i.e., to small floppies.
>    The answer would appear to do these transfers in DOS. But I can't
> figure out the correct DOS directory name for "My Documents", for example.
> Can
> anyone on the list tell me how to identify non-DOS files at the DOS
> prompt, so I
> can copy them onto a Zip disk in Drive E?
>    Lynn Brenner
>    BrennerNY@xxxxxxxx
>   
>

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