From: "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Beware of PTS-DOS
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:18:44 +0100
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Paragon stopped developing it :((((

Bye, Florian
www.seal.de.vu
www.drdos.org

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alain <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
An: FreeDos List <fd-dev AT topica DOT com>; opendos AT delorie DOT com
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Datum: Montag, 20. November 2000 00:30
Betreff: Beware of PTS-DOS


>Hi,
>
>There was a very interesting series of messages about
>PTS-DOS in fd-dev, with a final conclusion that it works OK...
>
>I have a very different tale to tell: Beware - PTS-2000 is dangerous
>
>Here is what happend to me: first I set up a test machine changing
>my HD to a 1.7Gb and had it running in DR-DOS 7.03 format in
>FAT16 created under DR-DOS's FDISK.
>
>Then I made a download of the evaluation version with fat32 and put
>it on a diskette. It booted ok on my notebook, it could see my fat32
>partition but changed my partition's letters (in the same non-standard
>way as dr-dos does). I didn't make any more test on this machine.
>
>After that I went to my test machine, booted from the diskette and tried
>the "SYS C:" command which didn't work, so I tried "SYSFAT32 C:"
>which didn't work too, but destroyed many files (I noticed because
>Dos Navigator was getting crazy). After that, SCANDISK could repair
>the FAT and the files and I could restore the damaged files.
>
>After that I discovered that if I copy a big file 1,2Mb from a diskette
>it
>gets corrupted :( after a long time I discovered that this could be
>fixed
>with the /V option :(((
>
>Then I tried to unzip this file (one of the damaged programs) and after
>a few atempts THE WHOLE HARD DRIVE WAS DESTROYED: many
>files were corrupted and many garbadge directory had aperaded in
>the root dir. As expected, after scandisk there was nothing useable
>left anywere. Thanks god it was a test machine!
>
>Worse of all, I sent a message to Paragon and one week is passed
>and I got no answer.
>
>Alain
>
>