I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other
purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the
disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be
the same as if chose the first partition, but when I'm finished,
FreeDOS won't boot. It will
2013/4/21 Felix Miata
> On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
>
> > I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other
> > purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the
> > disk (that's the last 1GB of the
2013/4/21 Felix Miata
>
> On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
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> > Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last
> > installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this
> > picture:
> > ht
2013/4/21 Felix Miata
> On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
>
> > Felix Miata composed:
>
> >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose
> #1,
> >> the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the first
2013/4/21 Kenneth J. Davis
> There are two different issues here.
> 1) The hard drive's master boot record (MBR - 1st sector where the
> partition table resides) must have bootable code installed. If you later
> intend to boot an OS from the 1st partition then installing a boot manager
> is a go
2013/4/22 Felix Miata
> also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware
> when using it
>
All tests were done with the disk OUT of the VE-300 case.
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2013/4/22 Felix Miata
>
> On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
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> > ...2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300...
>
> Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS???
>
> All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support.
>
