My computer suffered a "crash" a couple of days ago, at which time I thought I lost everything. Furtunately, I was able to run Scandisk from a floppy and it recovered many of the files I thought I had lost. Unfortunately, Win ME was deleted in this process, and before I reinstall Win ME, I want to copying some of the files onto a CD/floppy so they don't get overwrote while reinstalling Win ME. I'm only able to work from Dos.

Use a WIN98OEM boot disk from www.bootdisk.com this will give you CD support, the only CDRW software is from CDRoast http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/index.html which is limited Look thru www.mwpms.uklinux.net/page8.htm for basic details of copy commands etcetcetc, though only a few commands are supported by the boot disk, but type HELP and press enter at the A:\>_ command prompt will help.

Does that require Linux?? I'm reading at other places that it may..

Whats Linux? Even Ghost uses DOS!

Good question, I was just reading on other places that it may require Linux/Unix. Have you used CDRoast through Dos? Any suggestions??

This is what it says CDRoast can do at present This package can - copy data discs - writes ISO images to disc - reads a disc into ISO image file - finalize a disc - erase CDRW - read CD audio to WAV or MP3 - decodes MP3 to WAV or headerless PCM data - opens and closes the drive tray - plays audio CD using SVGA-based player - splits smaller parts of DVD's .VOB files into HDD - recover bad CD discs - provides safe shell for other CDR or CDRW related operations - etc., etc., etc... So feel you are left with floppies or maybe a parallel zip drive or another hard drive