What happens if you try to format the hard drive within dosbox? \ VOGONS

What happens if you try to format the hard drive within dosbox?

Posted on 2010-02-25, 01:51

mbd33 Offline

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I'm curious.

Posted on 2010-02-25, 03:28

ppgrainbow Offline

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mbd33 wrote:
I'm curious.

If you try to format the hard disk image under MS-DOS guest (or any other version of DOS) using DOSBox, all of the data is lost.

Believe me, when I first setup the hard disk image under MS-DOS guest, a partition had to be created and formatted.

Posted on 2010-02-25, 07:11

Qbix Offline

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if you mount a drive you can't format it.

Posted on 2010-02-25, 15:33

mbd33 Offline

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Oh.