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WJH

Stumbled upon this forum and thought someone here might have an answer.

I have a client with 12 Square D Model 400 processors. The old laptop computer running the DOS programming software crashed. The original discs cannot be located.

Is there a source for this programming software? Does anyone have a copy of this vintage software?

Thanks:
WJH
 
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Jeremy Pollard

Take the harddrive out, and extract the files using a USB/2.5 inch external case.. using file recovery software should yield results!!:)

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Michael Griffin

To start with, Square-D is Schneider. Try calling them.

Secondly, a hard drive "crash" can mean many things. The disk might still be readable even if it won't boot from the hard drive. Try booting the computer off an MS-DOS (or FreeDOS) floppy disk. If the disk is still readable, you should be able to get the files off it and onto the floppy (although this is a slow process).

You can also try just plugging the disk into the power and P-ATA cable inside a regular PC (a lot of PCs still have P-ATA for things like CD/DVD drives). You shouldn't have to buy an external enclosure for this.

The big problem is going to be if the software is copy protected with a disk based copy protection system. That file is intended to be difficult or impossible to copy without special equipment.
 
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Jeremy Pollard

True enuff Micheal ... that darn copy protection .. but I have found that some functions such as uploading can be done without the copy protection present - guess it depends...

Determining if the 'crash' is boot sector related vs a trashed drive is important!!

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