re: changing system and hidden files in \Windows folders
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 11:05 am
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Posted by Norm
(4 messages posted)
That "life time of challenges" lasted one day.
I resolved the problem by using a program - part of a package of Norton's Ver. 8
utilities - I got back in the days of DOS. It's a file attribute utility called
FA.EXE.
It "does the trick".
Using it, I am able to remove the hidden and system files from the Windows XP \windows
folder, and all its associated folders. That utility program is now included in my
boot up floppy that boots to Windows 98 pure DOS, which includes generic drivers
for my Maxtor and Seagate external drives - loaded with entries in config.sys - enabling
me to access all partitions of the C: drive and everything on my two external hard
drives.
This is to be used in the event booting to Windows 98SE fails. My normal method of
copying ALL Windows XP files, including the \windows folder and its subfolders -
to and from the external hard drives - is by booting to the Windows 98 partition
on drive C:. This method entails the use of xcopy32.exe of Windows 98SE with its
/s/e/h/r/i/c/y switches.
When all else fails, booting to pure DOS - from a floppy disk - often comes to the
rescure. But until I discovered the generic drivers for external hard drives -created
by Panasonic software engineers - accessibility of the two external hard drives from
pure DOS was not possible.
Gratias for the help and suggestions.
Aloha from Hawaii,
Norm
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