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