trying to reformat for FreeDOS a 6 GB hard drive that previously had Windows
:-) > After running Fdisk to create three 2 GB partitions and make one > bootable, I ran Format, but it gave the error message: Works for me. In FreeDOS ? Did you reboot after FDISK ??? > Running CPB0.COM (Clear Pre Boot v. 1.00 [06-88] good (does it support LBA ???) Other ways to do: - DBAN - WDe disk editor > * Clear MBR partition table by writing zero bytes to it > * Change partition type from type 06 (Fat16) to 0e (Fat16 LBA) In the empty MBR ??? FDISK on an empty disk should do the job. NO, I don't like the FDISK "design" but still using it for lack of alternatives. -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
