[Wine] Seagate floppy creator program doesnt work

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Oct 2 21:58:23 CDT 2005


James E. LaBarre wrote:
> Malte Gell wrote:
> 
>> http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/seatoold_en.exe
>>
>> Seagate offers a Windows executable (needs Win98 or better, 1,9MB) 
>> that should create 2 bootable floppy disks that contain a harddrive 
>> check program.
>>
>> Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the floppy should be 
>> written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click retry". I tried to 
>> mount a DOS formatted disk to /media/floppy and tried without 
>> mounting, it does not work.

Hmmm, you might try changing the .exe to .zip, then see if you can unzip 
it. Then you may be able to write the two disk images to floppies using 
Linux.

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David
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