I needed something standalone to run dos disk tools with and was hoping to use
Freedos. I was also trying to figure out a way to get Spinrite to run on a fob.
I don't have any systems with floppy drives anymore and I discovered that I
can't boot freedos from a CD with my current configuration, I suspect it's
because I am in AHCI for the SATA interfaces but having a FOB is a better
solution since I have systems that don't have a CD/DVD or a floppy and all of
them have USB's and if the problem is AHCI it's a pain to go into the BIO's and
switch back and forth continuously to try out some standalone tool. If I can
build fobs with everything on them that I can boot it makes it all earier since
they are so easy to transport and it' hard to get a CD in your pocket ;)
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From: Bernd Blaauw <bbla...@home.nl>
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Op 13-10-2011 21:44, Wayne Graves schreef:
> Unlike .exe's you can't set compatability on .com's
>
> I suspect sys.com just writes the boot block on the target device ? Any
> sugestions ?
> Thanks
Microsoft removed the 16bit compatibility layer on 64bit operating
systems, sorry. As we don't have a 32bit/64bit version of SYS :
* for floppies I'd recommend using WinImage and just write a downloaded
FreeDOS floppy image file to diskette.
* for USB flash drives I'd recommend using the HP USB Formatting tool
followed by Syslinux bootloader.
What are you wanting to use SYS on/for?
Sometimes a virtualisation product can help a bit.
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