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Critic of the DawnPosted on 07/13/05 at 01:36:58

Move the entire TNM7 folder onto a CD, Thumb Drive, or other similar storage device.  Once your computer is reinstalled and everything, move it back onto your hard drive.  This should leave everything useable.  If it won't run, go to properties and make sure that TNM.bat isn't in Read Only mode.  Or ask here.  I'm sure someone can help you out in that case.

Eric "Critic of the Dawn"
91Posted on 07/13/05 at 19:09:00

Better yet, zip it all up before putting it onto CD. That way, you won't get everything turning to 'read only' leaving you to change every file back (at worst, you'd only have to correct the zip file itself).
Rick GarrardPosted on 07/13/05 at 19:45:06

so far what has been suggested assumes that the person in question has a working copy of Windows... and this fellow has stated that he only has the edit and command functions which to me says that windows keeps booting him back to a dos-like command prompt.

In order to copy off everything you will need make sure you are at the "c:\" prompt or whichever letter drive that your TNM files are on.

To switch drive letters from this prompt, type in "c:\" or whichever drive letter you need to access.

Now you need to find your TNM folder.  If you know what you have named it, then you can type in "cd nameoftnmfolder" and hit enter.  This should change your prompt to "c:\tnm\" or something similar.

From here you can now copy the files to either a CD, if your CD drive is still accessible or you can copy files to a floppy, which you will probably want to use winzip on first, although, you should be able to copy of the tnm files without any trouble, but it may take several floppies depending on how much you have done on this particular copy of TNM.

If you need further assistance, please let us know.  
UnrightPosted on 07/15/05 at 02:26:31

DOS was also limited by the amount of characters a filename could have (unlike Windows). It can't be more than 8 characters long.

This is important because with WinXP most people install programs in a subset of Documents and Folders.

So C:\Documents and Folders\Unright\Program Files\TNM7SE

becomes...

C:\DOCUME~1\UNRIGHT\PROGRA~1\TNM7SE

You can always type "dir" or "dir/w" (without quotes) to see the folders and files in the directory you're in.

If Windows is down, there is a chance that it's not loading or recognizing your CD-R (or CD-RW) drive, ZIP drive, tape drive, (or whatever storage device you have).. But if does load and is accessible, just plop in a CD and within the TNM folder type:

move *.* d:

Change the "d:" with the letter of the drive of your storage device. If your computer is not recognizing and storage device drive. Sorry, but you're SOL. Unless you know someone who could fix it or are willing to shell out some money to pay for repairs.

Hope any of this helps or reaches you in time.