On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:39:53 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > You can press F5 or F8 while DOS boots to skip > all or some of the DOS drivers,
I tried that. The line that triggered the error was (I believe) calling "himem.sys". I could not find a himem.sys on the disk. > Regarding your partitioning problem: Use FDISK in > manual mode at the DOS prompt to make a bootable > FAT32 partition. Yes, I did that. As I said, it seemed to work but the other commands did not recognise the disk (ie partition). just "c:" produced some error about invalid drive, ditto "format c:" > If it is okay to kick out Windows, no! > It is possible that > your Windows is on a GPT partition. DOS itself and > FDISK for DOS do not support GPT, but GPT-partitioned > disks may still contain a simple MBR guard partition > to discourage MBR based tools from messing with it. Hahaha, ok. /Tomas _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
