- Apr 4, 2001
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I have Winhex 10.7 (a hex editor) and my friend recently ran into the problem that the zip drive no longer recognizes her disk (it's a zip-100 disk). I opened up Winhex and tried both the open disk and clone disk commands but windows does not believe there to be a disk in the drive at all. It gives me an error #10: An Error Occured While Accessing Drive I:.
Poking around through computer management, the disk is acknowledged as removable storage with unknown volume size and unknown volume label. This is also where it indicates that the volume is both unmounted and unallocated.
So I went into MS-DOS and tried a RECOVER command. It states that it cannot determine the file system on drive I:.
I acquired MS-DOS 6.2 from a friend. I created the three installation disks but it appears that MS-DOS 6.2 is a stand-alone OS and cannot be run from within Windows as it prompted me to format my primary disk. I was hoping that with MS-DOS 6.2 to run the DRVSPACE /INFO command or even attempt to remount the drive from within DOS.
Last thing I tried was booting from a Windows XP CD. In the past when a "directory tree" (I may be using the term incorrectly) has been corrupted and confused the partitioned and unpartitioned spaces, deleting the "directory tree" as if to install windows upon that partition (now, an unpartitioned space) and then aborting the remainder of the installation allowed me to get back to the raw hex data. The Windows XP installation indicated:
"There is no disk in the drive."
"There is no disk in the drive."
Space on disk 95MB.
"There is no disk in the drive."
Available space 114000MB.
Or something like that. So, the partitions are there...?
thanks in advance for any help
Poking around through computer management, the disk is acknowledged as removable storage with unknown volume size and unknown volume label. This is also where it indicates that the volume is both unmounted and unallocated.
So I went into MS-DOS and tried a RECOVER command. It states that it cannot determine the file system on drive I:.
I acquired MS-DOS 6.2 from a friend. I created the three installation disks but it appears that MS-DOS 6.2 is a stand-alone OS and cannot be run from within Windows as it prompted me to format my primary disk. I was hoping that with MS-DOS 6.2 to run the DRVSPACE /INFO command or even attempt to remount the drive from within DOS.
Last thing I tried was booting from a Windows XP CD. In the past when a "directory tree" (I may be using the term incorrectly) has been corrupted and confused the partitioned and unpartitioned spaces, deleting the "directory tree" as if to install windows upon that partition (now, an unpartitioned space) and then aborting the remainder of the installation allowed me to get back to the raw hex data. The Windows XP installation indicated:
"There is no disk in the drive."
"There is no disk in the drive."
Space on disk 95MB.
"There is no disk in the drive."
Available space 114000MB.
Or something like that. So, the partitions are there...?
thanks in advance for any help