[Coco] Nitros9 Boot Disk "issues"

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Mon May 22 07:13:37 EDT 2006


Regards creating/reading floppies from WinXP, you could try the following.

1) Your drive is not NTFS but FAT or FAT32. Create an MSDOS boot disk 
from WinXP by formatting a floppy. "Create an MS-DOS startup disk", is 
one of the check boxes. Boot using the floppy, move to your Coco 
directory on the hard drive, and run DSKINI.EXE, RETRIEVE.EXE, or 
OS9.EXE on a Coco disk.

2) Your drive is NTFS only. Install a second floppy drive. Place the 
needed software on a FAT structured floppy. Create a boot disk as above 
and run the needed Coco software from the MSDOS floppy (B:\) on a Coco 
disk (A:\).

The above is not pretty but it should work.



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