I'll give it a try later, thanks.
It's important to understand that once I boot into FreeDOS there is no
physical disk partition corresponding to drive D:. My FAT32 partition
(which is drive D: under XP) gets mapped to drive C: in FreeDOS. However, I
do have a drive E:, which is the USB thumbdrive. Could it be that the
FreeDOS kernel sees a drive E: and therefore expects a drive D: to exist
too? Beats me...
What I mainly need things to do in this situation is to fail gracefully.
Thanks again for the utility and I'll let you know what happens.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
> You can look at the output of my DRIVES program for the D: drive when
> using FreeDOS. It will probably indicate that something is wrong in one or
> more of DOS's internal tables. DRIVES is not intended to be used in batch
> files, but simply displays some information about all of the drive letters
> from DOS's perspective. It's usually a pretty good troubleshooting tool
> for situations like this.
>
> DRIVES is one of the programs included in my USB driver package available
> here:
>
> http://bretjohnson.us
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