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hello all,
A customer of mine has a proprietary HMI application (actually a DOS executable) running as full screen on Windows95 and it communicates with a Siemens S5 PLC on AS511 port by means of a non-siemens TSR driver loaded into memory (DOS style).
No documentation nor backup copies are available, so I want to backup this system "as is".
The PC is a desktop containing just an HD and a damaged floppy driver. No CDROM, no SATA, no USB and no Ethernet card are available. Just a spare IDE port.
I want my backup to be done with minimal intervention on the system, just adding a CD /RW unit, so I simulated on a similar PC a backup procedure using a couple of popular software such are Acronis and Paragon. None of them worked because the PC is very low in RAM (128K or less) or did not recognize the CD reader/writer.
I'm trying the following solution: adding a FAT formatted HD on the spare IDE connector and run a freeware backup app named ODIN (http://odin-win.sourceforge.net) which seems to run on low memory PCs. Drawback is that to restore the system I should have a Win95 machine already set up before copying back the disk image.
Is there any alternate clean solution with better results?
Thank you
A customer of mine has a proprietary HMI application (actually a DOS executable) running as full screen on Windows95 and it communicates with a Siemens S5 PLC on AS511 port by means of a non-siemens TSR driver loaded into memory (DOS style).
No documentation nor backup copies are available, so I want to backup this system "as is".
The PC is a desktop containing just an HD and a damaged floppy driver. No CDROM, no SATA, no USB and no Ethernet card are available. Just a spare IDE port.
I want my backup to be done with minimal intervention on the system, just adding a CD /RW unit, so I simulated on a similar PC a backup procedure using a couple of popular software such are Acronis and Paragon. None of them worked because the PC is very low in RAM (128K or less) or did not recognize the CD reader/writer.
I'm trying the following solution: adding a FAT formatted HD on the spare IDE connector and run a freeware backup app named ODIN (http://odin-win.sourceforge.net) which seems to run on low memory PCs. Drawback is that to restore the system I should have a Win95 machine already set up before copying back the disk image.
Is there any alternate clean solution with better results?
Thank you