HDD 'died' cyclic redundancy error

Wrong. IBM is IBM. Hitachi is Hitachi. IBM's disk drive manufacturing arm was bought by Hitachi Global Storage, the HD manufacturing arm of Hitachi.

Even farther back ESDI drives (some) had a small area of one platter reserved for a CP/M OS which "booted up" on the drives controller cards. THEN, the system could have access to the drive through an ESDI controller.

TSR yes. Provided by others... no. It was included BY Microsoft, and was their product.

There were 3rd party equivalents that predated doskey.

Graham

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:28:49 GMT, joseph2k put finger to keyboard and composed:

If you mean 4DOS, then I've been aware of this command.com replacement long before it became freeware. In any case I didn't say I was looking for this extra functionality, I just said that it would be one of the few features of XP that I would add to W98.

- Franc Zabkar

I meant IBM hard drives. Andy Cuffe

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Don't forget the Korn and bash shells :-)

-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)

Hey Meat _ I never had you figured as a Mr Beardy with open toed sandals ... !!

Arfa

LOL.... Nah not quite, gimme a few years.

so, wheres your backup?

restart.

quite

found the

drive

redundancy

In the PC.

Graham