is this too simplistic or what (?):
you could reformat ntfs and use a freeware reader,
or reformat the whole hard drive and then use that...........
or i've had excellent luck with USBASPI.SYS 2.27 +
DI1000DD.SYS (links below).
http://panasonic.jp/com/support/drive/other/f2h_usb.html
http://www.hiren.info/download/dos-files/di1000dd.sys
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>________________________________
>From: Bertho Grandpied <y31415926...@yahoo.fr>
>To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:46 PM
>Subject: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors
>
>In reply to: Bret Johnson <bretjohn@ju...>
>
>>> only support Intel/Via (UHCI) controllers yet.
>
>> True. Working on that.
>
>Great :=)
>
>>> I also think they have hard coded 512 bytes per sector.
>
>> No. USBDRIVE reads the maximum buffer size from the DOS List of Lists (as
>> discussed some earlier in the thread), and uses that as its maximum sector
>> size. If a USB disk has 4k sectors, but DOS can only handle 512 byte
>> sectors, USBDRIVE won't load the disk. If DOS can handle (buffer) 4k
>> sectors OK, USBDRIVE will load it and automatically mount any FAT partitions
>> it finds.
>
>TY for the heads-up.
>
>> Also as stated earlier, I don't personally have any disks with sector sizes
>>other than 512, so this has never been tested (at least by me) on a real
>>system.
>
>It would be a good thing if someone on the list having access to such a device
>/and/ Intel-based USB would experiment and report their findings...
>
>
>> That's why you need to modify the kernel to handle 4k sectors, also as
>> discussed earlier (at least with my drivers). Based on what Eric says,
>> though, that doesn't work with the FreeDOS kernel.
>
>As I noted earlier, I'm sure the default disk driver MS DOS kernels can handle
>bigger sectors, /but/ there are problems to be fixed - as pointed to me by R.
>Loew, and I verified it too : MSDOS init module (patition scanner) discards
>partitions whose boot sectors indicate any sector size other than 512. Disks
>operated through user drivers (config.sys) should not be so limited.
>
>While trying a free fix for MSDOS could be attempted - but is the effort worth
>it ? - I would vote for FreeDOS to be enhanced.
>
>Does someone here know if DR/Open DOS recognises >512k sectors, either or both
>with its built-in disk driver and user drivers ?
>
>
>> Because USBDRIVE provides an INT 13h interface, you can also use external
>> drivers to mount/access the non-FAT partitions that may be on the USB disks
>> (NTFS, EXTx, exFAT, ...). USBDRIVE won't mount non-FAT drives
>> automatically, though.
>
>Understood.
>
>
>Regards
>
>
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>Czerno
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