part 2
1) copy the i386 directory from the xp install cd to the usb harddisk
2) download
http://download.plop.at/files/fdostools.zipthere is format.exe and xcopy.exe in the zip
copy both to the root directory of the usb harddisk
3) now it becames dangerous, if something is different to my writing then stop and tell it me
on the laptop go into the plop boot manager, we set the ntfs partition to a fat partition
go to setup / partitions / hda1
select view/edit/copy data
write down to a paper the values of P1
move the cursor to P1 and go right to the 5th value (one value has 2 chars).
there must be a 07, change it to 0C
press esc and save the changes
4) boot the usb hd from the boot manager
now we have 2 partitions with fat. your usb harddisk C: and a prepeared but not formatted partition on the laptop D:
if you make "dir d:", then you should see something like "volume in drive d: error reading, ..., general failure...."
press a for abort, maybe you have to do this a few times until you are back to the command prompt
if you are back then run the 2 commands
format d:
sys d:
5) reboot and look if you can boot freedos on your laptop harddisk. if this works, we come to part 3
regarda
elmar