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Old October 6th 17, 02:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lee
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Default Is there a Windows version of ddrescue?

It sounds like you aren't familiar with the long filename suite of executables that give plain old 8.3 dos mode the full power of long filenames for use in say copy and make directory operations?

DOSbox under Windows will do long filenames but they must be quoted and it's likely that full support isn't really there - it's an emulator after all and not really DOS. And as such it would be using the Windows driver to access the hard drive in the first place. And we already know it's blind.

http://lfntools.sourceforge.net/

I would have never let scandisk run myself, pulling the plug much more preferable to having that thing autocorrect something I have no control over, nor can I get the fix put back and it's all built into scandisk automagically. You can try to have it set up so that it doesn't, but it always does just what it wants anyway.