[Coco] DSK files to real 3.5" disks

[Diego Barizo]

D'oh!
I forgot that the PC I used to do the transfers was left behind in the USA.
That one had multiboot, and I KNEW that I always booted to DOS...
I was trying now under W2K...
Just booted to DOS, and all is OK.
Next time, I'll wait 'till the next morning before asking questions I 
should already know the answer for :-)

Thanks...
Diego


Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>> I just got a 3.5" drive to format disks and give me back a nice empty 
>> listing after a DIR.
>> Now I want to transfer some DSK files to real disks.
>> I just tried using DSKINI.EXE ,just as I did many times with 5.25" 
>> disks.
>> But it just won't work. I keep getting write error on track 0 , head 
>> 0, sector 1.
>> I used the same disk that the CoCo formatted, and also tried with 
>> another 2 that have MS-DOS fat.
>> All the same.
>> Is there something I must change somewhere? Or DSKINI just won't work 
>> with 3.5" disks?
>>
>> Diego
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> Only a few questions immediately come to mind,
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> 1; Are you using 720k 3.5" media?
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> 2; Does your BIOS see the 3.5" drive?
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> 3; Are you working with DOS, Windows 9X or XP?
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> FWIW; I have done this in the past. I just tried it on one of the last 
> two machines that have BIOS's that can see 5.25" drives and it does 
> not seem to see the 3.5" drive. Just one more thing I need to check 
> out when I get some free time.
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> Bruce W.
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