[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Re: Help for transfering Coco disk to PC

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Neil Morrison wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sylvain De Chantal" <slydc at yahoo.ca>
> 
>>Hummm...so we can transfer Coco disks to the PC but with
>>Win98 or MS-DOS. So that was my problem since i'm only
>>using WinXP.

Or Linux :)

> Most transfer utilities rely on modifying a table in ram. AFAIK, in XP, how
> this works is not known so the software fails.

 From what I can tell when I looked into this, WinXP only supports 512 
byte sectors, after all this is standard for the PC. As you said 
modifying the disk base table is not documented/supported under XP (or 
NT and 2000 for tat matter).

If you are running Windows XP you can make yourself a boot floppy (which 
I believe is an option when you format it), which has a minimal Windows 
ME set of boot/dos files on it, if you boot with this it should be 
enough to let you run your CoCo disk (or indeed any disk transfer 
program that needs low level access) transfer program.

Phill.


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