On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:17:42 +0100, Tomas By wrote: > Would it be a good idea to format the Freedos partition from Windows 7?
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:52:42 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > [... boot LINUX where GPARTED can allow you to resize the Windows > partition without destroying it. And add a DOS partition. So I have three partitions since a while ago: Win 7, Freedos (not used yet) and Linux (not used yet either). Freedos fdisk does apparently recognise the Freedos partition (I deleted and recreated it, and rebooted many times so lets not worry about that any more). Freedos command.com (or whatever) and format DO NOT recognise the partition. At this point, what would be the best thing to do: 1. Boot Win 7 (after I manage to re-set the bootable flag that Freedos somehow removed), and format the Freedos partition from there. or 2. Boot Linux (after installing it) and format the Freedos partition from there instead? Earlier, with another machine, I formatted a partition in Windows and then installed Freedos on it, which led to problems. I do not remember details. But generally, Windows is more reliable than Linux for formatting FAT partitions (or maybe that is no longer true). What is best? /Tomas _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
