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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 30.08.2023, 20:21

> I have a 500GB GPT hard drive with a FAT32 drive on it. What will I need
> for DOS to see this disk? Is it possible at all?

AFAIK any current DOS kernel doesn't support GPT. Theoretically it shouldn't be so hard to add such support into FreeDOS, it would need only some minimal parsing of GPT to find FAT16/32 and read the LBA offset where the partition starts. Booting could be done via some GRUB with GPT support.
Alsou you coud save this troubles using hybrid MBR/GPT scheme as your disk size is below 2TB...

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Complete thread:

• FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 30.08.2023, 18:15
  • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 30.08.2023, 20:21
    • FAT32 drive on GPT - bretjohn, 31.08.2023, 01:27
    • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 31.08.2023, 10:31
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 31.08.2023, 14:52
        • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 17:32
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 31.08.2023, 18:27
        • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 17:24
          • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 01.09.2023, 19:11
            • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 01.09.2023, 19:29
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 22:52
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 02.09.2023, 00:14
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - bretjohn, 02.09.2023, 03:39
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 02.09.2023, 12:54
                  • FAT32 drive on GPT - ecm, 02.09.2023, 14:07
                    • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 02.09.2023, 15:17
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 02.09.2023, 21:51
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 02.09.2023, 21:14
            • FAT32 drive on GPT - 0ffer, 02.01.2024, 20:05
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - ecm, 03.02.2024, 19:08
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 02.09.2023, 21:19
  • FAT32 drive on GPT - mceric, 30.08.2023, 22:54