Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive
Date	2020-10-21 17:20 +0200
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Celejar wrote: 
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 08:55:20 +0300
> Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> 
> According to the manual, after I make the menu selection, "DFT will
> load automatically and present you with the License Agreement as shown
> below: ..." but this is where the thing bails and drops me to the
> screen above.
> 
> I poked around a bit, but was unable to get anything to run:
> 
> 'dir' shows two files: DFT-V300.EXE and LOADDFT.EXE. The latter
> returns: "Error: Missing parameter." The former returns:
> 
> PKSFX (R) FAST! Self Extract Utility Version 2.50 03-01-1999
> Copr. 1989-1999 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
> PKSFX Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
> 
> Searching EXE: A:/DFT/DFT-V300.EXE
> 	Inflating: CleanDsk.PID
> 	Inflating: CleanMBR.PID
> 	Inflating: DFT.EXE
> PXSFX: (E50) Disk Full, file: *
> 
> A:\DFT>
> 
> I switched to disk B: 'dir' shows four files: the two in A:, and
> CLEANDSK.PID and CLEANMBR.PID. Running DFT-v300 gives the same error
> (after warnings about overwriting the two *.PID files), and running
> LOADDFT also gives the same error as above.

Suggestion: mount the image as a loopback on your Linux system,
extract the DFT.EXE (the DFT-V300.EXE is almost certainly a ZIP
file that unzip can process), and then run it in a FreeDos boot.

http://www.freedos.org/

-dsr-

Thread

Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-20 19:20 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-20 19:50 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 03:20 +0200
      Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-21 08:00 +0200
        Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 15:10 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 17:10 +0200
        Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 17:10 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 17:20 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 19:00 +0200
              Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 19:10 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 19:50 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 20:10 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 20:20 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-21 20:30 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-21 23:00 +0200
                Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
          Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 23:50 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 01:40 +0200
              Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-23 14:40 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
            Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 03:40 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-20 21:30 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 02:40 +0200
  Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-22 15:50 +0200
    Re: Running HGST's DFT utility from a flash drive Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 16:10 +0200

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