#MS-DOS on 3.5"
30-Apr-87 23:44:01
Sb: #65660-#MS-DOS on 3.5"
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Mike Berro 73267,3361
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Mike,
yes, it's easy with Transformer. You first copy to 5.25" disks via the
PCCopy routine, and then boot up MS-DOS via Transformer and copy from the 5.25
onto a 3.5" disk and it will work just fine. I do it all the time and even
thou it's a pain…sometimes it's necessary.
I don't know of a reasonable way to do it directly via PCCopy as the
3.5" drives are recognized by DOS as AmigaDOS disks without a mount command and
thus are not useable as MS-DOS type disks…I suppose if you wanted to plug an
external 3.5" in while the system was "hot" (NOT a good idea thou!) it might
work…but you are really tempting fate and could easily blow the computer
trying it.
Don