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Answer» I am using an older dos business program ... I'll assume you have some version of MS DOS installed on the hard drive, and the computer boots that. Correct? At the command line, type ver and hit enter. It will tell you what version of DOS is running. What version is it? Quote can anyone tell me how to get this backup utility file or a dos diskette Check here: www.bootdisk.com for files that will let you create a Dos bootable floppy. However! I expect that you will need the exact same version as that which you have booted. Check here: http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/msdos.htm and you might find the backup/restore files. I don't know... take your time and look through what is there carefully. Quote obviously I am not a computer whiz The hard part is remembering... it has been a while since using backup. Perhaps somebody will come along that has continued to use it. other reference sites/pages: http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/ http://oldfiles.org.uk/ Willy W thanks for helping it says Microsoft Windows 2000 ( Version 5.00.2195 ) I went to the sites you listed and got Dos 5.0 and PD0315.EXE MS-DOS Backup/Restore Supplemental Utilities for MS-DOS Versions 3.x,4.x & 5.0 54KB I copied this utility to a floppy and tried to copy it COPY A:Backup.* says no files copied thanks for taking your time to help. any different steps I can do to get the backup restore utility copiedQuote from: wmkeele on January 19, 2008, 06:25:31 AM
Then you are not running plain old MS DOS. Looks like your computer is running Windows 2000. I don't have Win2000, so I can't comment on whether or not you'll ever get a version of backup to work with it. Quote I went to the sites you listed This should let you make a boot disk, that will boot to plain old MS DOS. Quote and I'd stated: "...take your time and look through what is there carefully. " That appears to be the SECOND item in the list. Quote I copied this utility to a floppy and tried to copy it Right. Because no file named backup.* existed. Quote thanks for taking your time to help. No problem. But as soon as you INTRODUCED Win2000, and if you need to operate under it, I think you need to wait for somebody else that is familiar with it to help you. Quote any different steps I can do to get the backup restore utility copied Sure. The same thing I've already SAID. Go back to that page, and carefully read it. I see a couple that clearly say, "Contains backup.exe ..." , whereas the one you downloaded does not. Next, you can't simply copy that download to a floppy and expect to find backup.exe on the floppy. The downloaded file is an executable. You have to run it. Suggestions: As always, with any download, scan it for malware before running it. It is probably a self extracting zip file. So put a copy of it in its own directory, and then run it. That way, if it extracts its contents right there, you've got them all together, and not mixed in with some other stuff you might have in a 'downloads' directory. Then look for anything named backup.exe and/or restore.exe . Again, I suspect that if you try to run them under Win2000, they might balk and tell you something about wrong version. You could experiment and find out though. |
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