I got to the point where I got a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the
screen when booting Freedos. I decided to try booting from two other computers
and from what I can tell, Freedos works on the other two computers.
On the computer where Freedos isn't working, there aren't a whole lot
In case you missed it, I am talking about a flash drive. Also, when using the
howto mentioned in the previous post, I used Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which has a
highly invasive and unsupported modification of SYSLINUX called gfxboot.
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ot;? What is the output
of "fdisk /dev/sdz"?
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Bill Haught wrote:
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I need to reinstall Windows anyway, so I thought I'd try installing Freedos
first since I have a USB flash drive that boots on two computers I have access
to but not on my computer. I have already included my system information in
the thread "Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos". I believe th
I tried Rufus again, this time writing down error messages.
C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-32-33, start= 1MB, size= 14792MB
BIOS reported 0 sectors/track, assuming 63!
BIOS reported 0 sectors/track, assuming 63!
D: HD3, Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-32-33, start= 1MB, size= 200MB
BIOS reported 0 sectors/track, assu
I figured it out. "USB Operation Mode" at "High Speed" interferes with Freedos
installation and USB flash drive booting. "ACPI Suspend Type" at "S3" also
interferes with Freedos installation. I haven't actually installed Freedos
yet, but I can get a listing of the partitions on the hard disk w
Here is my autoexec.bat file below. Note it has uide.sys and shsucdx already.
I don't know if the options are correct for my system, though. The last time I
messed with DOS was about 15-20 years ago when I didn't have a CD Drive, let
alone a DVD drive. By the way, it plays Blu-ray disks too,
You can get a 16GB flash drive at MaoMart, I mean Walmart, of course for
US$12.97 (at least in Cleveland, OH).
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The autoexec.bat file is the default Freedos batch file.
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USB drive, of course.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:41 PM, Bill Haught wrote:
You can get a 16GB flash drive at MaoMart, I mean Walmart, of course for
US$12.97 (at least in Cleveland, OH).
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>I'm honestly too dumb to know what I'm talking about here, but
>you'll have to enable "legacy mode" that doesn't use SATA or
>AHCI or whatever. If your machine doesn't allow that, then you're out
>of luck.
Only SATA Modes available are AHCI and RAID
Looks like I'm S.O.L.
The main reason I want Freedos is to flash my hard drive with the latest
firmware. I assume that the hard drive cannot be found for this purpose
without legacy ATA support. I suppose unnecessary drivers (or worse necessary
ones?) can brick a hard drive too?
I wonder if it would be better if
Found this in the archives
http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/26625851/
"UIDE/UIDEJR can run AHCI drives on mainboards that have a "legacy" or "native
IDE"
setting for AHCI controllers, i.e. the drives can be addressed using standard
SATA/IDE I-O logic."
In simple terms, I'm sc
Mine is a Western Digital WD10EALX. The file R313263.exe extracts to
C:\dell\drivers\R313263. The readme.txt in the directory is as follows:
THE INFORMATION, FIRMWARE AND TOOLS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED UPDATES AND
MODIFICATIONS (THE “INFORMATION”), CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS”
BASIS
The readme says "bootable USB key" I assume they mean a DOS one. Especially
due to licensing issues making one that boots Windows is a *REAL* project.l
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:01 PM, Bill Haught wrote:
Mine is a Western Digital WD10EALX. The file R313263.exe extracts t
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:10 PM, Bill Haught wrote:
>>The readme says "bootable USB key" I assume they mean a DOS one. Especially
>>due to licensing issues making one that
>>boots Windows is a *REAL* project.l
Or maybe not. Apparently with Vista
dmccunney:
Note that says "installation disk". That means you can potentially
start an install of Vista/7 from a USB drive. It does not mean you
can create a portable Windows installation that will *run* from a
thumbdrive.
Me:
If I can copy files to the flash drive
and get to a "DOS prompt" and
dmccunney:
Note that says "installation disk". That means you can potentially
start an install of Vista/7 from a USB drive. It does not mean you
can create a portable Windows installation that will *run* from a
thumbdrive.
Me: If I can copy files to the flash drive and get to a "DOS prompt" and
boot from USB key
your 'update HD Firmware' Software should take care about anything
else (even only to tell you 'this software requires windows')
Tom
>> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:01 PM, Bill Haught
>>wrote:
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>> Mine is a West
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