I'm retired and I fool around with lots of hardware, some of which is nothing
more then a motherboard, a keyboard and a lcd. Virtually all motherboards come
with a USB. Also when I have to deal with a broken disk Spinrite is great but
not if you can't boot it. Some claim it will run great from a fob, but I have
not been able to figure out a way to boot it on a fob. Gone are the happy days
when I could key a bootloader into the console of a PDP-11, actually to read a
paper tape in and boot something else :))
Spinrite has an option to create a bootable floppy but it won't work on a
device it thinks is not removable and for whatever reason it thinks all fobs
are not removable, haven't looked into that. I figure if I can boot freedos I
should be able to turn around and run Spinrite from that.
UIDE ? I don't mind alpha software, I have nothing better to do :)) I will
have to look at it.
MicroCrap is a pain but a 75% solution to most things since you can probably
buy something or find some freeware someplace that will almost do.
Unfortionately it doesn't work on all itx boards.
And Fobs are so much nicer then any other portable media, any CD can become
damaged, fobs are very reliable and I can fit maybe 10 in my pocket and they
can all be 32GB or less. If they had only had these when I started out 40+
years ago...
I am aware of all the floppy stuff, thanks but no thanks.
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From: Rugxulo <[email protected]>
To: Wayne Graves <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Wayne Graves <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I needed something standalone to run dos disk tools with and was hoping to
> use Freedos.
DOS disk tools on FreeDOS? Shouldn't be a problem. ;-)
> I was also trying to figure out a way to get Spinrite to run on a fob.
Spinrite (famously?) works with FreeDOS, though I've not tried personally.
http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm
"SpinRite is self-contained, including its own bootable FreeDOS
operating system"
> 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 wonder if latest UIDE would work better (assuming you're only using
"old" FD 1.0 from 2006). If you're adventurous (and willing to accept
alpha quality bugs), try 1.1 test #3.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1-test3/
> 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
No floppy I would understand (though USB drives exist), but no CD/DVD?
Must be a netbook.
> 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.
Don't worry, MS Win8 will "fix" that for you. :-P
> 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
For completeness, I'm listing this (though you don't need floppies),
aka Rawrite for Windows:
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite
If you don't need persistent (modifiable) storage, you can use UNetBootIn:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
> and it' hard to get a CD in your pocket ;)
Mini-CDs might work (e.g. "old" DamnSmallLinux swore by them) though I
dunno if all drives handle them.
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