> I'm retired and I fool around with lots of hardware, some of which > is nothing more then a motherboard, a keyboard and a lcd. Virtually > all motherboards come with a USB. Also when I have to deal with a > broken disk Spinrite is great but not if you can't boot it. Some > claim it will run great from a fob, but I have not been able to > figure out a way to boot it on a fob. Gone are the happy days when I > could key a bootloader into the console of a PDP-11, actually to > read a paper tape in and boot something else :)) > > Spinrite has an option to create a bootable floppy but it won't work > on a device it thinks is not removable and for whatever reason it > thinks all fobs are not removable, haven't looked into that. I > figure if I can boot freedos I should be able to turn around and run > Spinrite from that.
Using my USB drivers, it is possible to make a bootable USB disk or manipulate partitions just using standard DOS tools (FORMAT, FDISK, SYS, etc.). You don't necessarily need Windows or *nix to do that. The drivers still have a long ways to go before they're really "good", but can be useful even in their current limited state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
