Hi Gerry: Yes, I was running emm386. However, FDISK erased my (and at least one other) partition table without any prompt or request at all when only requested to examine the table. It's too risky to run the program at all until that bug is addressed (IMHO). I believe there is a development version floating around with that fix.
It is PROBABLY fairly safe to run it without EMM386, but I do not believe it is worth the risk. There are other tools to examine and manipulate disk partitions that won't destroy the partition table when they have been only asked to examine it. Mark > Hi Mark > > > Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument > > and under no circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless > > you want to risk an erased partition table. > > Can you clarify; when your partition table became damaged, were you > running EMM386 at the time, and have you tried it without? Maybe you > already answered this. > > -- > Gerry Hickman (London UK) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
