If GPT is the issue, should a Linux based tool be used to get around
that?  I'm thinking something like boot nuke or something similar.

April 23, 2020 8:16 AM, "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:

> Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use?
> 
> For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by
> saying the choice for MBR was good: GPT partitions
> are not visible for DOS. Not sure what the purpose
> of that EFI partition is, but it is easily possible
> that Windows had a boot loader on the first disk
> to boot from the second, affecting both boots.
> 
> You can tell FDISK to install a fresh MBR boot
> code, see the command line help of FDISK :-)
> Of course you also want to mark the partition as
> bootable and for big disks, you probably want to
> use FAT32 LBA partitions for FreeDOS.
> 
> Regards, Eric
> 
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