Hi, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 2012/04/18 16:55 (GMT-0400) kurt godel composed: > >> I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with >> a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an >> ext3/ext4 linux on it, eating up 25 GB.
So you do or do not have any use for the ext3 Linux partition(s)? >> I can read write to >> the dos partition with it's logical drives, but using the ext is a no-no. LTools? wDE? TestDisk? FD Fdisk? Presz? What exactly are you trying to do? Copy files? Reformat? Delete or create or resize partitions? Hack at the raw sector level? >> My question is can I edit the partitions through the usb port in the >> enclosure, or do I have to stick the drive in another machine to use,say, >> gparted? "Edit" the partitions as in resize? Delete? Add? Are you trying to use them under DOS and/or Linux and/or ... ? Temporarily or permanently? > DFSee doesn't care how it was able to find the HD. If any driver enabled it > to be seen by DFSee, it can do its things with the tables and partitions, > including change the type, delete, etc. DFSee isn't freeware since a long time ago (though he still hosts various older versions), but it does apparently have a FreeDOS-hosted USB stick that you can buy. Hmmm, also CD-ROM or "bootable diskette", and apparently evaluation versions can be downloaded. So yeah, you could try one of those. http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/cdrom.php#usb > If the EXT2 has something important > on it and you don't have Linux installed, boot a live Linux CD an copy it off > first. Files themselves don't care what type of partition they are on. I assume he's thought of that already, but I don't know of a lot of lean Linuxes. Perhaps ttylinux or even old ZipSlack or old DSL would be good enough. > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) I would hate to delete such a holy verse, so I'll just re-quote it from NABRE: -- "The wise of heart is esteemed for discernment, and pleasing speech gains a reputation for learning." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
