May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys.
I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. For FreeDOS you really don't need a large hard drive. 2GB is sufficient and most USB keys are easily fast enough to keep up with DOS. With the PC off, disconnect your drive containing loads of partitions. Then plug in a USB key with the USB installer on it and another blank USB key. Then install from the first one to the second. This should work if both are plugged in while the PC is being booted. BR, Robert Thorpe Felix Miata via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> writes: > Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400): > >> After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the >> FreeDOS >> installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is >> part of >> the target partition. No such was or is apparent. Now that FreeDOS is >> installed, >> only it can be booted, because it presumed it OK to move the boot flag off >> the >> partition on which I placed it. Fdisk remains of the errant notion that the >> boot >> flag can only be valid on a DOS partition, which is wholly untrue. Now I must >> locate some bootable Linux CD to boot for the singular purpose of changing >> two >> bytes in the partition table in order to make my other 20+ operating systems >> bootable again. > >> What other damage is awaiting my discovery once the boot flag is back where >> it was? > > Turns out, lots of damage: about 29 logical partitions deleted. The following > is how I _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
