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- From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: DOS 3.30 -> 5.00 restore :ACHIEVED!
- Message-ID: <By4254.3p2@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 09:24:40 GMT
- Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
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- DOS3.30 Backup -> DOS 5.00 Restore?
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- Thanks for all the e-mails and newsgroup postings.
-
- As some of you pointed out, in the manual it promises that DOS 5.00
- can restore backups from all previous DOS versions. The trouble to
- watch out for is 'assign'ed, 'join'ed, or 'subst'ed drives. I was
- also using PC-NFS 4.0a, which I believe has trouble with DOS's Restore.
-
- So first I prepared a new set of boot files for my PC, clearing out
- anything that might cause a problem. Then I ran the restore, carefully
- using the correct syntax:
-
- restore a: c:\*.* /s
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- *Not* "restore a: c: /s", or "restore *.* c:"
-
- And it worked fine. I spent quite a few hours before getting this right,
- so thanks again for the support.
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- =Brian Milner, The Computer Centre, Brunel University, West London, UK =
- =brian.milner@brunel.ac.uk |OH no! Look at all the washing up to be done!=
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