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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 03.01.2023, 04:05

> > > This is a guess only, but 128 sectors per cluster might be something
> > that
> > > MS-DOS 7.1 is unable to digest.
> > In my experience, MS-DOS 7.1 handles 64 kib clusters just fine. 128
> sectors
> > / cluster is possible and works perfectly well, even for FAT32 drives.
> > (This option allows one to format and use FAT16 drives up to 4 GiB in
> DOS).
>
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> Question - Does booting on a 128 sectors/cluster FAT32 partition with
> MS-DOS 7.1 work for you?
>
>
> I can use FAT32 700 GB partition for data/files - but I cannot boot from
> same (using the auto-installed MS-DOS 7.1 from CD).
>

Perhaps a silly question, but....

Is the partition in-question marked as "active/bootable" ?

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