Hi Alain, Eric, dos386 and 4625
Thanks :-)
I'll try again with your suggestions, and report back.
I'll also try with other hard drives -- just in case the problem
lies with this particular HD.
Marcos
PS: Yes, I meant 6 GigaBytes, not 6 MegaBytes. Sorry.
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On 2010/05/14 00:49 (GMT+0200) Eric Auer composed:
> ...without LBA,
> partitions must be in the first 1024 cyl (8 GB) of
> the disk, but the "small FAT16" partition type and
> FAT12 partition type are NOT available with LBA:
That probably depends on the kernel.
> 01 FAT12 (not recommended for h
One important thing to try is to format a small partition. Some BIOs
don't work well with big disks...
alain
Em 13-05-2010 14:47, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escreveu:
>> Alain wrote:
>> First try this:
>> Boot from a Freedos floppy,
>> FDISK /MBR
>>
Em 13-05-2010 10:49, dos386 escreveu:
>
> Or copy files manually after brewing the FS and finally fire SYS.COM
> to activate the kernel.
No, never copy manualy, that is only for (very) advanced users. SYS.COM
is very important and is working just fine
Alain
Hi Marcos,
>> FDISK /MBR
>> FORMAT C: /S /U
> Win98? Default BPB *FAT1x* 1024 sectors/FAT, 512 root size, FAT32 Forced.
> Access Denied! LOCK problem? Aborting.
> [Error 55]
With 1024 sectors per FAT you would have 256*1024
clusters, very im-plausible. Remember that FORMAT
12-May-2010 числа в 23:23 часов, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
написал(а) следующее:
> I'm trying to reformat for FreeDOS a 6 GB hard drive that previously
> had Windows 98.
>
> After running Fdisk to create three 2 GB partitions and make one
> bootable, I ran Format, but it gave the error mes
> Alain wrote:
> First try this:
> Boot from a Freedos floppy,
> FDISK /MBR
> FORMAT C: /S /U
> this should put your partition in shape :)
Tried three times ... result only slightly better than yesterday.
Error message today:
Win98? Default BPB *F
On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:07:55 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
>> Anyone whom has successfuly installed FreeDos to a portable USB HD ?
Yes, need some tricks in the 1st time ... also not all mainboard's
BIOS can boot the DOS hard disk. But most of the new BIOS (after 2008
should work).
Rgds,
Johnson.
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> /U is unconditional, it will test all and take a lng time
I haven't tried "/U" on HD yet (works for floppy).
> /S is to copy the system (freedos)
Or copy files manually after brewing the FS and finally fire SYS.COM
to activate the kernel.
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