Subject: Re: Trouble with CROSSWORKS on my new emachine
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WKRP writes ...
> 
> I've used CROSSWORKS for years to transfer stuff from old Apple disks to
> PCs. Recently I switched to a new emachine 533id2 tower running Win98.
> When I tried to run CROSSWORKS on it the program seemed OK, but it
> couldn't find the COM port. It reported "No serial port hardware found".
> I was running MSDOS under Win98 and when in Win98 the serial driver was
> reported installed and set to 19200 baud. Seems almost like the serial
> driver gets turned off when I go to an MSDOS program. I tried booting
> from an MSDOS disk. The boot went OK, but still the same problem. (In
> addition, MSDOS couldn't find the hard drive???...Oh well...)
> 
> Whadda I do guys?
>

     A few months ago, someone reported a similar 'strange problem' when using
the ADT disk transfer utility. The glitch turned out to involve some sort of
renaming of the serial ports-- like COM-2 was being called "COM-4" by the
system. There may be a Win98 setting or DOS command which will let you cancel
the renaming; or, if your software permits, you could experiment with different
COM numbers to get a connection.

 
> email copies of replies appreciated, my ISP's newew server is flakey
> some days.
> 
 ....

     A copy will be emailed.




Rubywand