Article ID: 37642
Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 3.1
- Microsoft MS-DOS 3.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 3.21 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3a
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
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SUMMARY
If you have two different, and possibly incompatible, floppy disk drive types, you can use one floppy disk drive to copy a file between two floppy disks if you install DRIVER.SYS with the appropriate switches in your CONFIG.SYS file.
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For example, if the line
DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:0 /F:1
is present in the CONFIG.SYS file, the following message is issued when the driver is installed
Loaded external disk driver for drive <x>
where <x> is the new logical drive letter associated with drive A. You can then use the single floppy disk drive and the MS-DOS COPY command to copy files between disks (swapping disks when prompted), as in the following example:
copy a:one.txt x:
DRIVER.SYS is only needed if you have two different, and possibly incompatible, floppy disk drive types; however, you still need to use two floppies of the same media type (for example, 360K to 360K).
NOTE: If your PC machine has only one floppy drive, MS-DOS uses a similar method and the B drive letter to allow you to copy files from floppy disk to floppy disk. For example, the following COPY example accomplishes the same results:
copy a:one.txt b:
Additional query words: 6.22 3.20 3.21 3.30 3.30a 4.00 5.00 5.00a 6.00 6.20
Keywords: KB37642
