Windows put system~1 folder and $recycle bin folder in drive.
Apr 1, 2024 07:55:41 #
I know a drive on a Windows system will have these folders. When I attatch a DOS drive to a Windows computer, Windows put these folders on my DOS drive. Under the DOS OS I can delete the system~1 folder but not recycle bin because the name isn't compatible to the DOS system.
How do I get rid of the recycle bin on the DOS drive?
How do I get rid of the recycle bin on the DOS drive?
Apr 1, 2024 08:10:10 #
Apr 1, 2024 08:48:23 #
Longshadow wrote:
Format it?
No. I want to keep all the data on the drive. I mounted it on a Windows machine so that I can transfer data I download from the internet to it as when I boot the PC up with it, it can't access the internet. But after mounting the drive to a Windows PC it put those folders on the drive.
Apr 1, 2024 08:53:24 #
That's interesting...
You're making it a bootable disk?
Gotta be something unique to that?
You're making it a bootable disk?
Gotta be something unique to that?
Apr 1, 2024 09:07:23 #
Longshadow wrote:
That's interesting...
You're making it a bootable disk?
Gotta be something unique to that?
You're making it a bootable disk?
Gotta be something unique to that?
Yes it's a HDD. It boots to DOS and run Windows 3.11 as well. It works quite well but when but there are 2 things.
1. If I need some data from the internet it can't access the internet.
2. If I need to print, I don't have a printer that is compatible.
So what do I do?
For programs and data from the internet I boot the pc up with Windows 10 boot drive and mount the DOS drive as a slave. Then I can copy data from the Windows drive or even download directly to the DOS drive.
For printing I have DOS program like WordPerfect print to a *.EPS file and Windows program prints to *.pdf files. So when I mount the drive as a slave and boot the PC up in Windows 10 I can open the *.eps file with PS and simply prints the *.pdf with Adobe reader.
Apr 1, 2024 09:16:14 #
Hmmm.
No clue, been too long for me. I did, years ago, figure out how to delete files with a tilde in them... but I don't remember how I did it.
The shell won't let you do it?
Not even using a wild card? Like "system*", as long as there are no other files starting with "system"...
No clue, been too long for me. I did, years ago, figure out how to delete files with a tilde in them... but I don't remember how I did it.
The shell won't let you do it?
Not even using a wild card? Like "system*", as long as there are no other files starting with "system"...
Apr 1, 2024 09:29:04 #
Longshadow wrote:
Hmmm.
No clue, been too long for me. I did, years ago, figure out how to delete files with a tilde in them... but I don't remember how I did it.
The shell won't let you do it?
Not even using a wild card? Like "system*", as long as there are no other files starting with "system"...
No clue, been too long for me. I did, years ago, figure out how to delete files with a tilde in them... but I don't remember how I did it.
The shell won't let you do it?
Not even using a wild card? Like "system*", as long as there are no other files starting with "system"...
I can delete the system~1
but not the recycle bin as the name is too long
Apr 1, 2024 09:35:24 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I can delete the system~1
but not the recycle bin as the name is too long
but not the recycle bin as the name is too long
A wild card doesn't work?
Apr 1, 2024 09:38:26 #
Longshadow wrote:
A wild card doesn't work?
No it doesn't work.
It's a folder (or directory as DOS called it) and not a file.
Apr 1, 2024 09:40:04 #
BebuLamar wrote:
No it doesn't work.
It's a folder (or directory as DOS called it) and not a file.
It's a folder (or directory as DOS called it) and not a file.
Sorry, I'm as a loss then. Been too long since I played with that stuff.
RMDIR in shell won't work either? For the DOS name visible?
Apr 1, 2024 10:02:21 #
Longshadow wrote:
Sorry, I'm as a loss then. Been too long since I played with that stuff.
RMDIR in shell won't work either? For the DOS name visible?
RMDIR in shell won't work either? For the DOS name visible?
You talked about shell? Do you mean the Dosshell?
Apr 1, 2024 10:15:49 #
BebuLamar wrote:
You talked about shell? Do you mean the Dosshell?
Yes.
Apr 1, 2024 10:42:23 #
Longshadow wrote:
Yes.
OK I will have to put the Dosshell command in my DOS setup. I use the latest version of PC DOS (version 7.0) and it doesn't have the the dosshell command. Also the 2 folders are hidden. To see them I have to do the dir listing with the /ah switch.
Apr 1, 2024 10:44:31 #
I used dosshell when I first got my PC back in 89 and DOS 4. DOS 4 was so bad I had to down grade to DOS 3.3. So I stopped using the dosshell since then. I had a 120MB drive which was considered large at the time. I had to partition it to 4 drives as a partition in DOS 3.3 is only 32MB max.
Apr 1, 2024 11:06:28 #
BebuLamar wrote:
OK I will have to put the Dosshell command in my DOS setup. I use the latest version of PC DOS (version 7.0) and it doesn't have the the dosshell command. Also the 2 folders are hidden. To see them I have to do the dir listing with the /ah switch.
I wonder if it being hidden may be part of the problem with deleting it?
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