Re: [Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-09 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello Alain, One question, did you happen to manage how does WinNT perform with such an enlarged FAT system? I'm tired of the fact that I have to either partition or use NTFS (rather problematic if you protect your Documents and settings with password and then windows gets trashed), and it could

[Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I just tested fdisk and format on a 500Gb disk 1) new disk was used with Linux, but a first primary partition was made but never formated 2) booted FreeDOS 1.0, and with fdisk deleted everything and creared only one primary partition for the whole disk 3) rebooted 4) fdisk /mbr (to remove

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! 1) new disk was used with Linux, but a first primary partition was made but never formated Make sure it is flagged as fat32 and as lba. Check possible messages from initdisk early during freedos boot as well. I recently tried making a DOS bootable partition on a new disk, too, and found: