I have a recovery disk for my laptop. The disk is 13 years old and I want to make a duplicate on a fresh floppy. When I copy all files to a new floppy and put in laptop, it says something about an "NTLDR" error. The files copy but I still get an error--the laptop only likes the "original" recovery disk. I love this laptop and would like to always have a backup of the recovery in case I need to do a clean install of 3.11, and I don't know how long the 13 year old floppy will last. Any ideas? Stephen Fox Windows 95 4.00.950 C PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

PS the laptop has 8MB RAM, and it is WFW 3.11. Stephen Fox Windows 95 4.00.950 C PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

Texas Instruments sold all of it's laptop business to Acer Group. You can download the file needed to make the recovery disk at: http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/html/tm4000_dl.html HTH.

Stephen: It sounds like you are doing a manual copy of the files. If you are I suggest in Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 or XP, use the copy disk option...In Windows Explorer right click the "A:" drive and select copy disk. If you are doing a manual copy you may not be getting the hidden operating system files.

BiloxiRain, Thanks for the link. I went to the TI site and downloaded the recovery disk. Problem is, it created a Windows 95 recovery disk, not 3.11 as it says on the website. When I tried to use FDISK, it said "Incorrect MS-DOS version." If I go to a c: prompt and type ver, it says "DOS 6.2". However, if I insert the new recovery disk to boot load, and then type ver, it says Windows 95 (4.00.950). I wonder if they decided to modify the recovery download file for Windows 95 instead of the earlier 3.11. In that case, I have to pray that nothing goes wrong, and that if anything does go wrong that the floppy will still be working at that time. Stephen Fox Windows 95 4.00.950 C PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

Stephen, I checked out that disk and it appears that all the utilities are DOS ver 6.2. Only the system files are Win 95. You should be able to transfer you system files already on your c-drive to the floppy by using the sys command from the c-prompt and then copy the command.com from your c-drive to a-drive. HTH.

You could use winimage to make a disk image of the disk, then you can write as many as you like and have the image file as a back up Woof Always proof-read carefully to see if you any words out.