On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 07:50, richardkolacz...@hotmail.com <richardkolacz...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Assuming that in future having USB full install is still available (there > were mentions in the past, I think, not to even have USB option) - is it > easily achievable to have bigger than the 512 MB C:\ that exists?
It's _possible_ at least in principle. I've booted FD13 from an 8GB FAT32 volume, and I've booted PC DOS 7.1 from a 2GB FAT32 USB volume, no problem at all. > I do not actually "install" FreeDOS as I use the USB stick as a BOOT stick > for bare metal mode OK. That's what I often do, too. > so FreeDOS does not actually "see" the Windows 10 hard drive in Legacy Mode. [?] Doesn't see it? Or sees it, but can't mount it? Win10 uses NTFS. DOS can't mount NTFS without 3rd party tools. But FDISK should see MBR-partitioned drives and report the partitions on them. If they are GPT, then it won't even do that, but it should read the dummy protective MBR block and see something. > I do use up the remaining space on a USB stick for D:\ and E:\ partitions - > but it would be nice to have a bigger C:\ partition. I think in principle you could plug the key into a Linux box and use GParted to resize C to as big as you want. With FAT16, 512MB minus 1kB is the most efficient size. At 1024MB (1GB) or 2GB you get very big clusters and a lot of space wastage. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
