The whole card would not read on Windows or Mac; Windows reported it as corrupt. I could read the file okay in Bow Commander, but if I could not transfer the file to Windows then this is not good for me. It was when I tried to copy the file to the root that the issue happened.
I am looking forward to the new version.
I don’t really think so, because if it were a fault with Bow Commander, the disk wouldn’t be readable even in EsxDos (which you said it is). So I reckon that EsxDos does something non-standard with that volume of disk operations, which causes problems for Windows and other operating systems, but not for EsxDos itself, because it’s something it’s designed to handle...
The problem is that, until now, there hasn’t been a programme for EsxDos that would use such a large number of disk operations at once (bulk copying, deleting, etc… and I think this is where EsxDos’s bugs and lack of fine-tuning come to the fore…). I don’t mean any harm by this; nobody writes flawless programmes, but it would be good to fix this behaviour at the OS level… .
A friend also gave me some advice:
- Which version of EsxDos are you using? Are you using the latest version, 0.8.9?
- And which FAT are you using? 16 or 32? If it’s 16, please try 32, and if it’s 32, please try 16...
I know this probably isn’t the answer you want to hear, but this is likely a problem unrelated to Bow Commander.
