[Discussion] WIN32 Driver

[Carl Gehr]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:58:26 -0600 (MDT), Douglas Clark wrote:

>>Well, at boot time when it loads, it decides to *abort* since it cannot find a WIN32 partition.  How 
>stupid is that!!! 
>
>One thing you could do is put a very small partition on your hard drive that is FAT32. This of course 
>is easier if you have Windoze already on the machine. I believe you might also be able to use 
>DFSEE for that. However - even when doing that I have not had very good luck getting FAT32 to 
>work for USB removable drives. It seems to work fine for my laptap that has Win XP and ECS on 
>the same hard drive (they share a FAT32 partition for transferring data between to two OSs), but I 
>have never gotten it to work with any USB drive.
>
>So I do what Kev suggests - I format the things as FAT.  It is a PITA for long file name stuff, but 
>works just fine upto 2 GB.
>Thanks
>
>Douglas Clark

I have a slightly strange situation with a 2GB Flash Drive:

The initial output of CHKDSK:
>[I:\]chkdsk
>The current hard disk drive is: I:
>The type of file system for the disk is FAT.
>The volume label is CRUZER2GB#1.
>The Volume Serial Number is 8658-2213.

So, it is clearly a FAT16 file system.

And, if I do a DIR of the root, for some selected files, I get:
>[I:\]dir libc*
>
>The volume label in drive I is CRUZER2GB#1.
>The Volume Serial Number is 8658:2213.
>Directory of I:\
>
>LIBC-0_6 WPI       708,931  5-30-07  1:03p


But, if I display the contents of the file using the eCS DRIVES icon,
it shows:

Title:        libc-0_6_2-csd2.wpi
Real Name:    LIBC-0_6.WPI

So, somehow, even though this is a FAT drive, it is retaining the full
name, I assume in EAs.

The thing I do not remember is, HOW did I copy this file from my HPFS
drive to the Flash Drive to have it maintain the long name?  I thought
just used a COPY command, but there are any number of other options
including COPY from the DRIVES display, copy using SPF/PC
edit-Utilites, Download directly to the I-Drive [the Flash Drive
letter]...  [Yes, I could experiment, but I've already spent more time
writing this than I have available.  And, the response may help
others.]

Anyone have an idea?  This technique could be a way to make eCS happy
with FAT16 and not have to use ZIP to retain the full name, make up a
short name temporarily, etc.

TIA,
Carl