On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a lot of difficulty with hard disks, and spent > something like 12 hours in the last couple of days trying to > partition and format them -- in spite of the help I already got > from list participants. So I'm writing again. > > Let me try to separate the problems. > > - Problem 1: Partitioning and formatting in FAT16 > > I simply have been unable to partition a 4 GB or 6 GB disk in > FAT16 and get it to work properly. I tried it in countless > ways, using FDisk and Format (both from FreeDOS), and > TestDisk.
You do know that the maximum legal size for a FAT16 partition is 2GB? NT Setup would create 4GB volumes then immediately convert them to NTFS, but nothing much else will use 4GB FAT16 volumes, and that is the absolute size limit. For actual /use/ it's 2GB. For what it's worth, in the old days of DOS, I used to use Norton Disk Doctor for recovering badly-damaged volumes. Scandisk is about the next best thing, but NDD was considerably better. You can probably find it as abandonware somewhere now. If you can't, ask me; if I can find an old copy, I'll send it to you. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
