[Freedos-user] Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-14 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I had a (partial) success: formatted a 4 GB disk which previously also produced the error message "Boot sector contents implausible, disk not yet FAT formatted", etc., etc. It now has one 2 GB partition, and it boots normally. Although I am not sure, I think what made the difference this ti

Re: [Freedos-user] Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marcos, > I had a (partial) success: formatted a 4 GB disk which previously > also produced the error message "Boot sector contents > implausible, disk not yet FAT formatted", etc., etc. > > It now has one 2 GB partition, and it boots normally. I forgot to mention - you can use the /D option

[Freedos-user] Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-14 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Eric, Here are some answers. -- > > Although I am not sure, I think what made the difference this > > time is that, in the computer setup, I changed the setting of > > "32Bit Mode" to "OFF". > Please explain what you mean by 32bit mode and at > which place this se

Re: [Freedos-user] Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/05/14 23:14 (GMT-0300) Marcos Favero Florence de Barros composed: > This is just the standard CMOS setup. The line reads: > LBA Blk PIO 32Bit > Pri Master Type Size Cyln Head WPCom Sec Mode Mode Mode Mode > As shown above, m