Fine. Just use it - Snapshot will run on any DOS. Just copy SNAPSHOT.EXE to the disk and use it.
You can create a DOS Bootdisk by formatting a floppy with the Option 'MS-DOS
Bootdisk creation'.
Windows XP will create a floppy, containing a (very limited) subset of Windows
ME.
Snapshot SETUP has created a shortcut in the start menu
Programs->Snapshot Disk Imaging->Snapshot Notfall Diskette erstellen.
Click this to create a bootable FreeDOS disk, including PnP network access to your NT server (see below).
If you bought the full version, you got a CDROM, which is bootable as well. The booted disk is equivalent to the diskette above.
Properties:
Always supported are FAT16, FAT32 und ATAPI CD-ROMs (the
CDROM-Laufwerk is as W: installed).
Due to limited available memory, you have to select on start, if you additionally want to access local NTFS drives (for the image file location), or want to find the image files on the Windows Network.
When creating the recovery boot disk, Snapshot tries to detect the current keyboard layout (of Windows). It then creates a file LANGUAGE.BAT on the bootdisk, that is executed during boot and holds the statement
KEYB XX
where XX is the layout identifier to be loaded.
Currently detected are English (US), United Kingdom (UK), German (GR), Swiss
German (SG), French (FR), Swiss French (SF), Portuguese (PO), Brazil (BR),
Russia (RU), Bulgaria (BG), Belgian (BE), Dutch (NL), Finnish (SU), Swedish (SV),
Italy (IT), Hebrew (HE), Norwegian (NO).
You can get a list of all
supported layouts with
A:>KEYB /L
This Bootdisk is derived from Bart Lagerweij's Bart's
Network Boot Disk.
We changed it to be based on FreeDOS to avoid license issues.
This disk supports
After starting the disk, you have to enter something like
A:> NET USE Z: \\Servername\\Share
and restore the image files from Z:
Currently supported network adapters:
File | Description | Updated |
---|---|---|
b57.cab (19KB) | Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet NDIS2 Driver v6.32 (030220) | Jul 8, 2003 |
This driver will also work for HP/Compaq NC67xx/NC77xx Gigabit (Broadcom Based) adapters! | ||
dc21x4.cab (19KB) | Digital 2104x/2114x 10/100 mbps Ethernet Controller v3.00 | Mar 26, 2002 |
OEM: Linksys v1? Used in VirtualPC. | ||
e100b.cab (12KB) | Intel(R) PRO PCI Driver v4.47 030503 | Jul 8, 2003 |
v1.6 Updated by Todd Geib, added dev=1209,v1.7 Updated by BG | ||
e1000.cab (12KB) | Intel 8254X Based Adapter (pro/1000 gigabit) v3.20 031003 | Jul 8, 2003 |
Created by Todd Geib. Update by Dan Chappelear (from Dell). Updated by BG. Added more ID's. | ||
el59x.cab (13KB) | 3Com DOS NDIS driver for 3C59X Family Adapters v1.2f | Mar 26, 2002 |
el90x.cab (13KB) | 3Com Etherlink PCI DOS NDIS driver v5.2.2 | Aug 15, 2002 |
Downgraded by Bob Whitworth (Nasa) with good reason: v5.2.5 for 3Com 90x cards doesn't work properly with old 905-TX card (9050) with the original Parallel Tasking chip (not v2 used in 905b or c). If you try to install Win2000 over the network, it will hang at random (usually about 40-60% thru). The 5.2.4 driver has the same bug. 3Com couldn't figure it out. The older v5.2.2 driver works with all 905s (905, 905b & 905c). | ||
elnk3.cab (11KB) | 3Com DOS EtherLink 10 ISA (3C509b) Network Driver v3.1 | Sep 11, 2002 |
Updated by Dick Nagtegaal. Fixed divide overflow on fast Pentium machines. More info! | ||
elpc3.cab (14KB) | 3Com Megahertz Ethernet PC Card 589E DOS Network Driver v1.9.005 | Feb 3, 2003 |
Updated by Robert Mader. Should fix divide by zero errors. More info! | ||
elpc575.cab (14KB) | 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card DOS NDIS driver v3.4b | Mar 26, 2002 |
ne2000.cab (9KB) | Microsoft NE2000 NDIS Driver | Jul 11, 2002 |
Bugfix in autorun.bat | ||
n100.cab (13KB) | Compaq Fast Ethernet and Gigabit NDIS 2 NIC Drivers 7.0a (25Jan02) | Mar 26, 2002 |
Created by Dilan Patel | ||
n1000.cab (12KB) | Compaq Gigabit 6134/6136 (Intel Based) | Mar 26, 2002 |
Created by Dimitri Janczak. Does not support EMM386! | ||
pcntnd.cab (13KB) | AMD PCNet Family Ethernet Adapter NDIS v2.0.1 MAC Driver v3.12 | Mar 26, 2002 |
el90x.cab | 3Com Etherlink PCI DOS NDIS driver v5.2.2 | Aug, 15 2002 |
Downgraded by Bob Whitworth (Nasa) with good reason: v5.2.5 for 3Com 90x cards doesn't work properly with old 905-TX card (9050) with the original Parallel Tasking chip (not v2 used in 905b or c). If you try to install Win2000 over the network, it will hang at random (usually about 40-60% thru). The 5.2.4 driver has the same bug. 3Com couldn't figure it out. The older v5.2.2 driver works with all 905s (905, 905b & 905c). | ||
rtsnd.cab (21KB) | Realtek RTL8139/810X Family PCI Fast Ethernet v3.23 07/28/99 | Mar 26, 2002 |
sis900.cab (14KB) | SiS 900/7016 SIS900 10/100 PCI DOS Driver v1.13 | Mar 26, 2002 |
smc9432.cab (13KB) | SMC EtherPower II 10/100 (9432TX) v1.02c (970605) | Mar 26, 2002 |
If you have a different Network adapter, go to Bart's Network
Boot Disk.
You will find ~100 supported drivers, which unfortunately don't fit all on a
floppy disk. Just copy the required driver XXXCARD.CAB into A:\LIB\NDIS, and
reboot.
We would like to hear from you, which drivers are missing; so we can place the most required drivers immediately into the delivered package.
short note to eMail an support@drivesnapshot.de will do. thanks.
If your image files are located on a NTFS volume, DOS isn't able to access them by itself.
Sysinternals offers (besides a lot of different useful utilities) a NTFSDOS driver for DOS; the read-only variant is free.
Please download NTFSDOS.EXE and copy it to A:\UTILS.
Due to License issues, we are not allowed to add it to our delivery package
(coming soon).
Most motherboard don't support the fast UDMA mode for IDE drives in their BIOS; therefore Disk transfer speed in DOS is limited to ~8MB/sec, which results in a max. possible restore rate of 5MB/sec.
Modern hard disks could have a transfer speed of 30 MB/sec and more, if accessed with UDMA.
Since 1.30, the recovery disk supports UDMA.
UDMA will test it's functionality, and will not load, if it doesn't find compatible hardware. Unfortunately, the test causes some (very few) main boards to hang, so we can't load it automatically.
Please enable UDMA by
A:> UDMA
UDMA was developed by Latschezar Georgiev, more information can be
found at his Website