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Cannot Format a mounted HDD image

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First post, by NEx

Posted on 2006-03-06, 16:20

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i've been farting around with this for a couple of days now. I am able to create a hard disk image using bochs without issue. I'm able to use FDISK to create the partition and set it active. When I try to format the partition I've created i keep getting a Disk write error and cannot proceed. I'm attempting this from a Dual Core 3800+ with XP pro SP2 but also from Virtual PC's runing Xp Pro sp2, win98, etc.,

any insight would be appreciated.

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

Posted on 2006-03-06, 18:19

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the only reason I see is that perhaps the -size and -fs switches are wrong (fs needs to be none). Also you should try the CVS version of Dosbox if you don't do this already.

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Reply 2 of 2, by NEx

Posted on 2006-03-08, 22:56

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Hey Dominus,

thanks for the reply. The size is correct and fs is none. I'm using the imgmount 2 to keep it master until I have the file system on it. I've also double checked the ntfs permissions to verify they aren't also causing a problem.

i've actually never used cvs before, I'll look into that...

Regards,

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